Unscramble

e 1 s 1 c 3 a 1 r 1 o 1 l 1 e 1

8 letters · 10 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges

originBorrowed from French escarole, from Italian scariola, scarola (“chicory; endive”), from Late Latin escariola, scariola, from Latin ēsca (“food; dish prepared for the table”) (from edō (“to eat”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”)) + -ola (from -olus, -ulus (suffix forming diminutive nouns)). Doublet of scariole.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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