chicory plant

Questions about chicory plant

What does chicory plant mean?

chicory plant means "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".

What is another word for chicory plant?

Close synonyms include chicory, succory, Cichorium intybus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chicory plant a common word?

chicory plant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.