chicory

Examples

• All

• Many people enjoy drinking chicory coffee as a caffeine-free alternative.

• In the rear of his shop, Wentworth made chicory coffee and inhaled the rich dark fumes.

  Fiction book (2002)

• I recommend the chicory coffee.

  Self/less (2015)

• And so chicory has been used as a coffee substitute for many, many, many years.

• That's right, chicory flavored coffee, little tiny chicory chips.

• We went to three A.M. fishermen's mass in the cathedral, then had beignets and chicory coffee at dawn.

  Fiction book (1992)

• She orders a cup of the chicory coffee, by reputation so strong that it could dissolve her spoon.

  Fiction book (2000)

• She breathes it in: pink light, the air of the café heady with chicory-coffee aroma, an aura of promise.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Their aroma commingled with the smell of sewers, fried pork, mint, coffee laced with chicory, old shoes set out in doorways for shining, and all the other scents of Old Havana.

  Fiction book (1997)

• She mixed chicory into her regular coffee for a richer flavor.

Synonyms

C

chicory root

vschicory

1 5.3

People use a dried, roasted root instead of coffee to add flavor

is specifically the roasted form rather than dried or ground

Compounds

C

chicory root

1 5.3

People use a dried, roasted root instead of coffee to add flavor

C

chicory escarole

7.6

A leafy vegetable with broad slightly bitter leaves and crinkled edges used in salads and cooking

C

chicory plant

5.3

A plant with bright blue flowers grown for edible leaves and roots

How Coffee-Like

decaffeinated coffee

3 2.4

chicory

2 6.9

coffee substitute

3.4

herbal tea

17 1.3

barley water

4.1

Surface Forms

Etymology