endive
a composite plant, Cichorium endivia, having a rosette of often curly-edged leaves used in salads.: Compare escarole.
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.
Furniture. an ornamental motif having the form of an arrangement of acanthus or endive leaves.
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How to use endive in a sentence
Being from the southwest of France, it is thanks to endive that I realize that there is exceptional produce everywhere.
Make walnut oil-Champagne vinegar vinaigrette to dress a salad of endive, toasted walnuts, and roasted and diced golden beets.
Several kinds of endive as well as watercress may also be used for salad.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and SciencesIt is slightly higher in food value than lettuce and endive, but lower than dandelion.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 2 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciencesendive is very low in food value, comparing very closely with celery and cucumbers in this respect.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 2 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
To be most satisfactory, endive should be bought when it is fresh and unwithered and kept until used in a cool, damp place.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 2 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences(a) If greens, such as endive, appear to be withered, how may they be freshened?
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British Dictionary definitions for endive
/ (ˈɛndaɪv) /
a plant, Cichorium endivia, cultivated for its crisp curly leaves, which are used in salads: family Asteraceae (composites): Compare chicory
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