endive

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Pauline began to cut the endive, and Jean bent down to receive the leaves in the great salad dish.

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  1. noun An Indian plant (Cichorium endivia) cultivated for its crown of crisp succulent leaves used in salads. Also called frisée.
  2. noun Escarole.
  3. noun A variety of the common chicory Cichorium intybus cultivated to produce a narrow, pointed, blanched cluster of leaves used in salads. Also called Belgian endive, witloof.

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  • Tossed with a raspberry dressing was radicchio, endive, and romaine, with walnuts and "sweet Gorgonzola." —  Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
  • A salad of Belgian endive, apple and arugula with candied pecans, dried cherries, feta cheese with aged balsamic vinaigrette. —  theleafchronicle.com - Local News
  • Greens like escarole, endive, and the belovedly bitter radicchio are staples in winter, providing a sturdy counterpoint to warm, rich flavors as bold elements in a salad, such as radicchio against crusty Jerusalem artichokes. —  Serious Eats
  • After counting the final winter leaves of Belgian endive, he found he had saved about $2,150 by growing produce for his family of five instead of buying it.
  • Dinner began with appetizers of crab cakes and shrimp and mango ceviche in leaves of endive, set to the keyboard stylings of —  Durangoherald.com
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin endivia, from Medieval Greek entubia, pl. diminutive of Greek entubon, perhaps from Egyptian tybi, January (because the plant grows in this month).

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  1. from Middle English endyve = Dutch andijvie = G. Danish endivie = Swedish endivia, from Old French endive, French endive = Spanish endibia, formerly endivia = Provencal Portuguese Italian endivia, from Middle Latin intiba, feminine singular, Latin intibus, intubus, intybus, masculine, intibum, intybum, neuter, from Greek *ἒντυβον, endive. Cf. Arabic hindiba, apparently of European origin.
 

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