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
How To Use succory In A Sentence
- This plant, the succory of former days, is greatly esteemed by the French, by whom it is known as barbe de capucin. The Art of Living in Australia
- Violet leaves, wild tansie, succory-roots, large mace, raisins, and damask prunes boil'd with a chicken and a crust of bread. The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery
- Scoltzii would fain have them use all summer the condite flowers of succory, strawberry water, roses Anatomy of Melancholy
- “Was ever woman in a strait so fearful!” exclaimed the Lady of Lochleven — “At least, thou rash boy, beware that no one tastes the food, but especially the jar of succory-water.” The Abbot
- The chicory plant can be found growing in areas where nothing else will and it shoots roots that run deep in the earth - probably how it acquired the name succory, stemming from the Latin word ‘to run under’.
- This is the succory (Cichorium Intybus of the botanists), described by Emerson as ‘succory to match the sky.’
- If you think the party be in any heat, put in violet leaves and succory. The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery
- Helleboratus major and minor in Quercetan, and Syrupus Genistae for hypochondriacal melancholy in the same author, compound syrup of succory, of fumitory, polypody, &c. Anatomy of Melancholy
- With their whimsical ancient names such as corncockle, mousetail, fluellen, fumitory, downy hemp-nettle and lamb's succory, they have music as well as colour.
- In the last week, the Earth had been generous in sending forth dock and succory and starwort and lamb's quarters.