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How to use endive in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Endive means a leafy salad vegetable, Cichorium endivia, which is often confused with common chicory (Cichorium intybus). Example: “Endive, like a number of similar plants, is both esculent and reputed to have some aphrodisiac property.”

Examples of endive by meaning

nounA leafy salad vegetable, Cichorium endivia, which is often confused with common chicory (Cichorium intybus).

  • Endive, like a number of similar plants, is both esculent and reputed to have some aphrodisiac property.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 83
  • Endive and escarole are the same vegetable, but endive has leaves that are cut and curled, while escarole has smooth, broad leaves.2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables, page 146

More sentences with endive

  • Not wasting a good source-word, ancient plant-namers also transformed hendibeh into the related endive (Cichorium endiva).2020, Julie Bruton-Seal, Matthew Seal, The Big Book of Backyard Medicine, The Ultimate Guide to Home-Grown Herbal Remedies. From the entry hendibeh
  • We may harvest a salad of mache, endive hearts, and claytonia.1999, Eliot Coleman, Barbara Damrosch, Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long. From the entry claytonia
  • Like the water lily, endive, and lettuce, rue was believed to have anti-aphrodisiac properties.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 211. From the entry rue
  • Escarole is a form of endive with the Latin name Cichorium endivia var. latifolia.1943, Bulletin of the Garden Club of America, series 8, [Lake Forest, Ill.]: Garden Club of America, →OCLC, page 16. From the entry escarole
  • Food articles often have botanical illustrations of lesser-eaten greenery like endive and watercress, drawn by artist John Burgoyne.2017, Shawn Chandler Bingham, “Bohemian Groves, Grooves, Gardens, and Guns”, in Shawn Chandler Bingham, Lindsey A. Freeman, editors, The…. From the entry bohemian
  • Like chicory and Belgian endive, escarole’s bitterness is its attraction.2001, “Vegetables”, in Susan Westmoreland, editor, The Good Housekeeping Cookbook, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Books, →ISBN, page 432, column 2. From the entry escarole
  • They include the rustic cutting chicories sometimes found growing wild in Italy, the burgundy-colored heading radicchios, and the elegant Belgian endive.1999, Rosalind Creasy, “Italian Garden Encyclopedia [Chicories (cicorie): Cichorium intybus]”, in The Edible Italian Garden, North…. From the entry chicory
  • Everything's even better than it sounds: endive, watercress, and aged Stilton salad, frog legs amandine with celeriac puree, buffalo foie burger with truffle fries on a brioche bun, campfire trout.2005, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 50, number 5, page 159. From the entry foie

Meaning of endive

  1. noun A leafy salad vegetable, Cichorium endivia, which is often confused with common chicory (Cichorium intybus).

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Questions about endive in a sentence

How do you use endive in a sentence?
Endive is used as a noun. For example: “Endive, like a number of similar plants, is both esculent and reputed to have some aphrodisiac property.”
What is a short sentence with endive?
“Like chicory and Belgian endive, escarole’s bitterness is its attraction.”
What does endive mean?
Endive means a leafy salad vegetable, Cichorium endivia, which is often confused with common chicory (Cichorium intybus).

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