chicory.
Either of two plants of the Asteraceae family.
Meaning & usage
Either of two plants of the Asteraceae family.
Either of two plants of the Asteraceae family. Common chicory (Cichorium intybus), source of Belgian endive, radicchio, and certain other cultivars with other names.
sugarloaf chicory
Either of two plants of the Asteraceae family. Endive (Cichorium endivia), the source of escarole and frisée.
A coffee substitute made from the roasted roots of the common chicory, sometimes used as a cheap adulterant in real coffee.
Where this word comes from
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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