Meaning

noun widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched

noun variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges

originFrom Middle French endive, from Medieval Latin endivia or Italian indivia~endivia, from Byzantine Greek ἐντύβιον (entúbion), from Latin intibus (which see). The ultimate source is likely Semitic.

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