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Definition of Chicory root

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

2. Noun. Root of the chicory plant roasted and ground to substitute for or adulterate coffee.

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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