Definition of Chicory root

1. Noun. The dried root of the chicory plant: used as a coffee substitute.

Exact synonyms: Chicory
Group relationships: Chicory, Chicory Plant, Cichorium Intybus, Succory
Generic synonyms: Root

2. Noun. Root of the chicory plant roasted and ground to substitute for or adulterate coffee.
Exact synonyms: Chicory
Generic synonyms: Coffee Substitute

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chicory Root

chiclero
chiclero ulcer
chicleros
chicles
chiclet keyboard
chiclet keyboards
chicly
chicness
chicnesses
chicon
chicons
chicories
chicory
chicory escarole
chicory plant
chicory root (current term)
chicorylike
chicos
chicot
chics
chid
chidden
chide
chided
chider
chideress
chideresses
chiders
chides
chidester

Literary usage of Chicory root

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"chicory root. Cichorium Intybus, Linn. Composite. Figs. 331, 332. ... The chicory root is also used medicinally and the leaves as a salad, ..."

2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"1917, 166, 661 ; 1918, 166, 428) state tliat inulin breaks down, under the influence of an enzyme present in chicory root, ..."

3. Adulterations Detected; Or, Plain Instructions for the Discovery of Frauds by Arthur Hill Hassall (1857)
"In the roasted and charred chicory root the same structures may be detected ... Fragment of ROASTED chicory root, taken from a wimple of adulterated coffee, ..."

4. Food and Its Adulterations: Comprising the Reports of the Analytical by Arthur Hill Hassall (1855)
"STRUCTURE OF chicory root. In the raw chicory root three parts or structures may be distinguished facility, cells, dotted vessels, and vessels of the latex. ..."

5. Tariff Schedules: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of by Oscar Wilder Underwood (1913)
"291; item, chicory root dried and chicory root roasted, granulated, in rolls, and otherwise. We object to any reduction of the present duties on any of the ..."

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