CURLY ENDIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does curly endive mean? 

• CURLY ENDIVE (noun)
  The noun CURLY ENDIVE has 1 sense:

1. crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste

  Familiarity information: CURLY ENDIVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CURLY ENDIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

chicory; curly endive

Hypernyms ("curly endive" is a kind of...):

salad green; salad greens (greens suitable for eating uncooked as in salads)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "curly endive"):

radicchio (prized variety of chicory having globose heads of red leaves)

Holonyms ("curly endive" is a part of...):

chicory; chicory plant; Cichorium intybus; succory (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)