Definitionn. 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
Last update: September 20, 2015
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On the other side, at the top of the field, it is dry, and blue succory grows, and grows out on the road beyond. [Please select]
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One of his neighbors erected a Flemish château, another a Florentine palazzo, and a third a François Premier _hôtel_; but his plot of ground remained an unkempt tangle of mullein and blue succory. [Please select]
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"Fifty years ago," says Buffon (writing in 1749), "our pot-herbs consisted of a single species of succory, and two of lettuce, both very bad; but we have now more than fifty kinds of lettuce and succory, all of which are good." [Please select]
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This plant, like the succory, is of an ungraceful aspect; yet it has sweet and beautiful blossoms, and as an herb bearing seed is in the front rank. [Please select]
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They had found a spot to their mind, with plenty of succory and evening primrose, and were wise enough not to forsake it for any uncertainty. [Please select]
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