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Chicory
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- 1 Either of two plants of the Asteraceae family. countable
"Endive—is another species of chicory, and a native of the East Indies. It was introduced into this country in 1548, is a hardy annual, requires a rich soil to secure its rapid maturity, and is blanched by tying up the leaves when it has attained its full growth. [...] It is used as a salad, ragout, or as a constituent of soups, &c.; and is considered very digestible and well adapted as a green vegetable for those who have delicate digestive organs."
- 2 crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste wordnet
- 3 Either of two plants of the Asteraceae family.; Common chicory (Cichorium intybus), source of Belgian endive, radicchio, and certain other cultivars with other names. British, countable, uncountable
"sugarloaf chicory"
- 4 root of the chicory plant roasted and ground to substitute for or adulterate coffee wordnet
- 5 Either of two plants of the Asteraceae family.; Endive (Cichorium endivia), the source of escarole and frisée. Canada, US, countable, uncountable
"The leaves of the cultivated chicory, endive, when blanched, form an ingredient in early spring salads."
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- 6 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 wordnet
- 7 A coffee substitute made from the roasted roots of the common chicory, sometimes used as a cheap adulterant in real coffee. uncountable
"The Coffee planters have invariably waged war against the use of Chicory, under the conscientious conviction that every ounce of Chicory consumed in England displaced an ounce of their Coffee in the market. [...] That the prudent, sensible, moderate use of Chicory has been abused, there can be no question; but the same remark applies to everything which has every been found useful in any branch of manufacture whatever."
- 8 the dried root of the chicory plant: used as a coffee substitute wordnet
Etymology
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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