Definitions for endives

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endives en·dive

Spelling: [en-dahyv, ahn-deev; French ahn- Endives is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 147 anagrams from letters in endives (deeinsv).

Definitions for endives

noun

1. a composite plant, Cichorium endivia, having a rosette of often curly-edged leaves used in salads. Compare escarole.
2. Also 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.
3. Furniture. an ornamental motif having the form of an arrangement of acanthus or endive leaves.

Origin of endives

1325-75; Middle English Middle French ≪ Medieval Greek entýbia, plural of entýbion, derivative of earlier éntybon Latin intubum, intibum, earlier intubus chicory, endive, perhaps Semitic

Examples for endives

Make walnut oil-Champagne vinegar vinaigrette to dress a salad of endive, toasted walnuts, and roasted and diced golden beets.

Others, like chicory, an endive like the dandelion, are injurious.

endive is a hardy annual, said to be a native of China and Japan.

Decorate with sprigs of endive, placing a large tuft at the top.

endive and chiccory should be added to the list of vegetable salads.

Rub a salad bowl with cut garlic and fill with chickory or endive.

Decorate it with endive, and put a border of aspic jelly round it.

Being from the southwest of France, it is thanks to endive that I realize that there is exceptional produce everywhere.

The above recipe can be used for chicory as well as for endive.

The endive is a variety of this species, or another species of the same genus.