endive
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6.1
- noun
- /ˈɛndaɪv/
:
endibia
- Uh, I'll have the endive salad and a T-bone.
- Belgian endive
- endive salad
- curly endive
Examples
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Rather than selecting one type of lettuce for your salad, choose mixed greens, which typically offer five or more colorful delicate greens such as radicchio, butter leaf, curly endive, and mache.
Blog text (32) -
And a green salad with red leaf lettuce and endive, cucumber, pepper, alfalfa sprouts, and a vinegar-and-oil dressing flavored with dill.
Fiction book (1997) -
I would like a Belgian endive salad.
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I threw in a couple of endive and lots of garlic and shallots after the second hour, and they caramelized beautifully.
Blog text (5) -
Her salad plate contained microscopic traces of arugula and endive.
Fiction book (1993) -
Mozzarella, grilled egg plant, fennel, peppers, and endive with white truffle oil to start.
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"Ms. Armstrong introduces bits of truffle in an endive salad... ...that accompanied a lightly steamed and wondrously silken halibut fillet.
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Green leafy vegetables such as spinach, kale, arugula, collard greens, and endive are full of vitamins, minerals, and disease-fighting phytochemicals.
Blog text (15) -
She went home and drank a bottle of Beaujolais and ate a kilo of sautéed endives with roquefort sauce.
Fiction book (1994) -
I would like a Belgian endive salad.
Synonyms
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9.2
A leafy green with broad frilled leaves used in salads and cooking
1
6.0
A salad green with crisp curly leaves and a slight bitter taste
1
6.8
A narrow pale vegetable with tender leaves that people grow in darkness
A leafy green plant with curly or flat leaves used in salads
A leafy vegetable with broad slightly bitter leaves and crinkled edges used in salads and cooking
A narrow pale salad leaf grown in the dark with a mild, slightly bitter taste
A pale leafy vegetable often eaten in salads with a slightly bitter taste
Compounds
How Bitter
Surface Forms
Etymology
Endive comes from an old Dutch word andijvie and from the Latin plant name indivia. It kept the idea of the same leafy vegetable, so endive means the crisp or slightly 'bitter' salad green we eat today.