| NOUN | food | curly endive, chicory | crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste |
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| Meaning | Crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste. | |
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| Synonym | chicory | |
| Part of | chicory, succory, chicory plant, Cichorium intybus | 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 |
| Narrower | radicchio | prized variety of chicory having globose heads of red leaves |
| Broader | salad green, salad greens | greens suitable for eating uncooked as in salads |
| Spanish | achicoria, chicoria, escarola | |
| Catalan | escarola, xicoira | |
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