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n. - 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.

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Usage examples (36)
  • If you think the party be in any heat, put in violet leaves and succory.
  • Scoltzii would fain have them use all summer the condite flowers of succory, strawberry water, roses
  • This plant, the succory of former days, is greatly esteemed by the French, by whom it is known as barbe de capucin.
  • And because the spleen and blood are often misaffected in melancholy, I may not omit endive, succory, dandelion, fumitory,
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