cichorium endivia

Questions about cichorium endivia

What does cichorium endivia mean?

cichorium endivia means "widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched".

What is another word for cichorium endivia?

Close synonyms include endive, witloof. 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 cichorium endivia a common word?

cichorium endivia 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.