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CURLY ENDIVE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste
Synonyms:
chicory; curly endive
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("curly endive" is a kind of...):
salad green; salad greens (greens suitable for eating uncooked as in salads)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "curly endive"):
radicchio (prized variety of chicory having globose heads of red leaves)
Holonyms ("curly endive" is a part of...):
chicory; chicory plant; Cichorium intybus; succory (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)
