Radicchio

//ɹəˈdi.kjoʊ// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A cultivar of chicory (Cichorium intybus var. foliosum) with red leaves and a slightly bitter taste, eaten as a salad vegetable or grilled.

    "In memory, all the food they brought us first was red: the bresaola, the fat tongues of roasted peppers laid on goat's cheese, the radicchio, the white china bowl of radish coronets."

  2. 2
    prized variety of chicory having globose heads of red leaves wordnet

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italian chicoryitalian chicory

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"In memory, all the food they brought us first was red: the bresaola, the fat tongues of roasted peppers laid on goat's cheese, the radicchio, the white china bowl of radish coronets."

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian radicchio.

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