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noun
Either of two plants of the Asteraceae family.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
Either of two plants of the Asteraceae family.
Common chicory (Cichorium intybus), source of Belgian endive, radicchio, and certain other cultivars with other names.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, uncountable
Synonyms: blue daisy, blue dandelion, blue sailor, blue weed, chicory button, coffeeweed, cornflower, hendibeh, horseweed, ragged sailor, succory, wild bachelor's button, wild endive
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Either of two plants of the Asteraceae family.
Endive (Cichorium endivia), the source of escarole and frisée.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, countable, uncountable
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noun
A coffee substitute made from the roasted roots of the common chicory, sometimes used as a cheap adulterant in real coffee.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
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noun
crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: curly endive
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: salad green, salad greens
Narrower terms: radicchio
noun
root of the chicory plant roasted and ground to substitute for or adulterate coffee
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: chicory root
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Broader terms: coffee substitute
noun
perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: succory, chicory plant, Cichorium intybus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: herb, herbaceous plant
noun
the dried root of the chicory plant: used as a coffee substitute
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: chicory root
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: root
History
From Late Middle English cicoree, cicory, cicorea, sicory, sycory (“common chicory (Cichorium intybus); heliotrope”), from Old French cicoree (modern French chicorée (“common chicory; endive; coffee substitute made from common chicory”)), or directly from its etymon Medieval Latin cicorea, cichorea, *cichōria, from Latin cichorium, cichoreum (“common chicory; endive”), from Ancient Greek κίχορα (kíkhora), κιχόρεια (kikhóreia), neuter plural of κιχώριον (kikhṓrion, “chicory”). The English word is cognate with Italian cicórea, and is a doublet of succory.
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