1. Plante potagère qu'on met ordinairement dans les salades.
2. Racine d'une espèce de chicorée utilisée pour faire une sorte de café, ou pour mélanger avec du café.
ETYM French chicorée, earlier also cichorée, Latin cichorium, from Greek.
1. The dried root of the chicory plant: used as a coffee substitute; SYN. chicory root.
2. 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; SYN. succory, chicory plant, Cichorium intybus.
3. Plant with crisp, spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste; SYN. curly endive.
Plant Cichorium intybus, family Compositae. Native to Europe and W Asia, it has large, usually blue, flowers. Its long taproot is used dried and roasted as a coffee substitute. As a garden vegetable, grown under cover, its blanched leaves are used in salads. It is related to endive.