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French endive

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en⋅dive

  [en-dahyv, ahn-deev; Fr. ahn-deev]
–noun, plural -dives  [-dahyvz, -deevz; Fr. -deev] .
1. a composite plant, Cichorium endivia, having a rosette of often curly-edged leaves used in salads. Compare escarole.
2. Also called Belgian endive, French endive, witloof. a young chicory plant, deprived of light to form a narrow head of whitish leaves that are eaten as a cooked vegetable or used raw in salads.
3. Furniture. an ornamental motif having the form of an arrangement of acanthus or endive leaves.
Origin:
1325–75; ME < MF≪ MGk entýbia, pl. of entýbion, deriv. of earlier éntybon < L intubum, intibum, earlier intubus chicory, endive, perh. < Sem
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Word Origin & History

endive 
1373, from O.Fr. endive, ult. from Medieval Gk. entybon (though OED considers this a borrowing from L.), probably of Eastern origin (perhaps from Egyptian tybi "January," which is when the plant grows in Egypt).
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