chicory
Meanings
Plural: chicories
Noun
- the dried root of the chicory plant: used as a coffee substitute
- 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
- root of the chicory plant roasted and ground to substitute for or adulterate coffee
- crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste
- Either of two plants of the Asteraceae family.
- Common chicory (Cichorium intybus), source of Belgian endive, radicchio, and certain other cultivars with other names.
- Either of two plants of the Asteraceae family.
- Endive (Cichorium endivia), the source of escarole and frisée.
- Either of two plants of the Asteraceae family.
- A coffee substitute made from the roasted roots of the common chicory, sometimes used as a cheap adulterant in real coffee.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
blue daisy, blue dandelion, blue sailor, blue weed, chicory button, chicory plant, chicory root, Cichorium intybus, coffeeweed, cornflower, curly endive, hendibeh, horseweed, ragged sailor, succory, wild bachelor's button, wild endive
Scrabble Score: 17
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