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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024en•dive /ˈɛndaɪv, ɑnˈdiv/USA pronunciation n. - Plant Biologya plant having often curly-edged leaves used in salads.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024en•dive (en′dīv, än′dēv; Fr. än dēv′),USA pronunciation n., pl. -dives (-dīvz, -dēvz; Fr. -dēv′).USA pronunciation - Plant Biologya composite plant, Cichorium endivia, having a rosette of often curly-edged leaves used in salads. Cf. escarole.
- Plant BiologyAlso called Belgian endive, French endive, witloof. a young chicory plant, deprived of light to form a narrow head of whitish leaves that are eaten as a cooked vegetable or used raw in salads.
- Furniturean ornamental motif having the form of an arrangement of acanthus or endive leaves.
- Semitic
- Latin intubum, intibum, earlier intubus chicory, endive, perh.
- Middle French Medieval Greek entýbia, plural of entýbion, derivative of earlier éntybon
- Middle English 1325–75
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: endive /ˈɛndaɪv/ n - a plant, Cichorium endivia, cultivated for its crisp curly leaves, which are used in salads: family Asteraceae (composites)
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Etymology: 15th Century: from Old French, from Medieval Latin endīvia, variant of Latin intubus, entubus, of uncertain origin |