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noun perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads
originFrom earlier Dutch succoreye, sukereye (Modern Dutch suikerij (“chicory”)), from Middle Dutch, from Old French cicorée. Doublet of chicory.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0