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.
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Examples for "chicory"
Examples for "chicory"
1It was overgrown with chicory and burdock: it needed Brother Robert's talents.
2Walnut dressing Best used with bitter salads like chicory, endive and scarole.
3The mistress made it very strong and without a grain of chicory.
4Endive is of the same nature as chicory, the leaves being curly.
5She stood there scarcely breathing, the chicory flowers held before her lips.
1Let the air be cool, her garments thin, and her food endive, lettuce, succory and barley.
2She strolled away, picking tiny, pink-tipped daisies and blue succory blossoms growing in the moist green grass.
3This story of the plantain is almost identical with one told in Germany of the endive or succory.
4Just as blue as succory flowers.
5Chicory, or succory; in poetry.
1Her shuttle had caught in a dead chicory plant, and spun no more.
Translations for chicory plant