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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

chicorée

, earlier also

cichorée

, L.

cichorium

, fr. Gr.

[GREEK]

(Bot.)

A branching perennial plant (

Cichorium Intybus

) with bright blue flowers, growing wild in Europe, Asia, and America; also cultivated for its roots and as a salad plant; succory; wild endive. See

The root, which is roasted for mixing with coffee.

A common chicory (Cichorium intybus) flower.

chicory ‎(countable and uncountable, plural chicories)

Either of two plants of the Asteraceae family
1. Common chicory (Cichorium intybus), the source of radicchio, Belgian endive, and sugarloaf.
2. endive (Cichorium endivia)
A coffee substitute made from the roasted roots of the common chicory, sometimes used as a cheap adulterant in real coffee.

Cichorium intybus

Afrikaans: sigorei
Arabic: اَلْهِنْدِبَاء f pl ‎(al-hindibāʾ)
Armenian: եղերդակ (hy) ‎(ełerdak)
Basque: txikoria
Bulgarian: цикория f ‎(cikorija)
Chinese:

Cantonese: 菊苣 ‎(guk¹ geoi⁶)

Mandarin: 菊苣 (zh) ‎(jújù)
Czech: čekanka (cs) f, čekanka obecná f
Dutch: witloof (nl) n, witlof (nl) n, lof (nl) n, cichorei (nl) f, suikerij f
Faroese: sikur n
Finnish: sikuri (fi)
French: chicorée (fr) f
Galician: chicoria (gl) f
German: Wegwarte (de) f
Greek: πικραλίδα (el) f ‎(pikralída), πικρομάρουλο n ‎(pikromároulo), κιχώριον n ‎(kichórion), ραδίκι (el) n ‎(radíki)
Hungarian: katáng (hu)

Cichorium endivia — see endive

coffee substitute