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succory

NOUN
  1. 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.
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