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Succory

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. Synonyms: chicory, chicory plant, Cichorium intybus.

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... door; and whole days passed without the movement of any wheels but the butcher's upon our street, which flourished in ragweed and butter-cups and daisies, and in the autumn burned, like the borders of nearly all the streets in Charlesbridge, with the pallid azure flame of the succory. The neighborhood was in all things a frontier between city and country. The horse-cars, the type of such civilization— full of imposture, discomfort, and sublime possibility—as we yet possess, went by the head of our street, ...

— Suburban Sketches • W.D. Howells

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Words linked to "Succory" : Cichorium, genus Cichorium, herb, lamb succory, chicory root, chicory plant, curly endive, herbaceous plant, Cichorium intybus, blue succory, chicory