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radicchio

n. a form of chicory with red leaves and a slightly bitter taste, eaten as a salad vegetable

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radicchio

n. prized variety of chicory having globose heads of red leaves

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Radicchio

Radicchio ( or ; ) is a leaf chicory ( Cichorium intybus, Asteraceae), sometimes known as Italian chicory, and is a perennial. It is grown as a leaf vegetable which usually has white-veined red leaves. It has a bitter and spicy taste, which mellows when it is grilled or roasted.

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The radicchio salad looked particularly disgusting today, but that was what the diet said she could have.

Smells of garlic and spices came from the kitchens, wafts that sent saliva spurting into the back of her mouth in a way that no radicchio leaf on earth could do.

As she left them, she heard George murmuring sadly that the radicchio had been off today and they'd had to make do with endive.