noun

chicory

CHIH-kuh-ree

noun

A blue-flowered plant whose leaves are eaten as a salad green and whose root is used to make a coffee substitute.

"The salad was made with fresh chicory and walnuts."

"New Orleans coffee is famously blended with roasted chicory root."

How to Use Chicory

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishA leafy plant used both as a salad vegetable and, when its root is roasted and ground, as a coffee substitute or additive.

Common pairings

coffee and chicory chicory root a head of chicory

chicories plural

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The salad was made with fresh _____ and walnuts.

Traces back through Old French and Latin to Ancient Greek kíkhora, the name for the same plant.

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