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Leafy green vegetable
Answer for the clue "Leafy green vegetable ", 8 letters:
escarole
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A subspecies or variety of endive, (taxlink Cichorium endivia subsp. crispum subspecies noshow=1), that has frilly leaves.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
escarole \escarole\ n. [Fr., from OFr. scariole. fr. LL. escariola, L. escarius of food, fit to eat, esca food, fr. edere to eat.] a variety of endive ( Cichorium endivia ) often used in salads, having leaves with irregular frilled edges. Syn: endive, curly ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges [syn: chicory escarole , endive ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of endive, 1897, from French escarole (13c., scariole ), from Italian scariola , from Medieval Latin escariola .\n
Usage examples of escarole.
Gidre was eating frog legs and digging into his double order of escarole cooked with bacon.
His fragile expectations would inevitably dampen as she attacked her salad, flickered as she swallowed garlic escarole with vulgar relish, guttered with the entree, and died over brandy and cheese.
Snowclaw asked, tossing the half-chewed turkey leg into the tureen of escarole soup.
At Valencay, his stunningly beautiful Renaissance chateau, he played the provincial squire, installed as mayor and experimenting with new varieties of escarole and carrot and tending his nursery of Scotch pines.