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Endive   /ˈɛndɪv/   Listen
Endive

noun
1.
Widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched.  Synonyms: Cichorium endivia, witloof.
2.
Variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges.  Synonyms: chicory escarole, escarole.



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"Endive" Quotes from Famous Books



... innumerable market gardens that are principally laid out in long, narrow beds, lost into nothingness as they dwindle down in the dim vista of perspective, and which are planted with curly endive, piquante- looking lettuces, and early cabbages; squat rows of gooseberry bushes and currant trees, with a rose set here and there in between; and sweet- smelling, besides, of hidden violets and honeysuckles, and the pink and white hawthorn of ...
— She and I, Volume 1 • John Conroy Hutcheson

... endive and chicory or escarole make the best dinner salads, although one may use mixed cooked vegetables ...
— The International Jewish Cook Book • Florence Kreisler Greenbaum

... that bull is driven to the mere's mouth, and to the meadows of Physcus, and to the Neaethus, where all fair herbs bloom, red goat-wort, and endive, and fragrant bees-wort. ...
— Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English Prose • Andrew Lang

... vegetable seed whenever possible, particularly for biennials such as brassicas, beets and endive. During summer these generate large quantities of compostable straw after the seed is thrashed. Usually there is a big dry bean patch that also produces a lot of straw. There are vegetable trimmings, and large quantities of ...
— Organic Gardener's Composting • Steve Solomon

... a partial list of the succulent vegetables. In addition may be mentioned artichokes of the green or cone variety, chard, string beans, celery, corn on the cob, turnips, turnip tops, lotus, endive, ...
— Maintaining Health • R. L. Alsaker



Words linked to "Endive" :   herb, salad green, genus Cichorium, escarole, Cichorium, herbaceous plant, salad greens



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