cichorium intybus

Questions about cichorium intybus

What does cichorium intybus mean?

cichorium intybus 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 cichorium intybus?

Close synonyms include chicory, succory, chicory plant. 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 intybus a common word?

cichorium intybus 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.