radicchios

Noun

radicchio (plural radicchios)

1. A cultivar of chicory (Cichorium intybus var. foliosum) with red leaves and a slightly bitter taste, eaten as a salad vegetable or grilled.
   • In memory, all the food they brought us first was red: the bresaola, the fat tongues of roasted peppers laid on goat's cheese, the radicchio, the white china bowl of radish coronets.1997, Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage, published 1998, page 163

   Synonyms:

   Italian chicory