noun
widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched
• Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Cichorium, ↑genus Cichorium
• Part Meronyms: ↑chicory escarole, ↑endive, ↑escarole, ↑Belgian endive, ↑French endive, ↑witloof
Useful english dictionary. 2012.