different between chicory vs hickory

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English cicoree, cicory, cicorea, sicory, sycory (“common chicory (Cichorium intybus); heliotrope”), from Old French cicoree (modern French chicorée (“common chicory; endive; coffee substitute made from common chicory”)), or directly from its etymon Medieval Latin cicorea, cichorea, *cich?ria, from Latin cichorium, cichoreum (“common chicory; endive”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kíkhora), ???????? (kikhóreia), neuter plural of ???????? (kikh?rion, “chicory”). The English word is cognate with Italian cicórea, and is a doublet of succory.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??k??i/, /?t??k?i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t??k??i/
• Hyphenation: chi?co?ry

Noun

chicory (countable and uncountable, plural chicories)

1. (countable, botany) Either of two plants of the Asteraceae family.
   1. (chiefly Britain) The common chicory (Cichorium intybus), the source of Belgian endive, radicchio, and sugarloaf.

      Synonyms: blue daisy, blue dandelion, blue sailor, blue weed, chicory button, coffeeweed, cornflower, hendibeh, horseweed, ragged sailor, succory, wild bachelor's button, wild endive
   2. (chiefly Canada, US) The endive (Cichorium endivia), the source of escarole and frisée.
2. (uncountable, cooking) A coffee substitute made from the roasted roots of the common chicory, sometimes used as a cheap adulterant in real coffee.

Alternative forms

• chiccory (dated)
• chickory

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See also

• treviso

References

Further reading

• chicory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cichorium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• hiccory

English

Alternative forms

• hiccory, hickery, hickry, pokickery

Etymology

A shortening of pockerchicory/pokickery/pohickery, from an Algonquian language, probably Ojibwe/Algonquin pawcohiccora.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?k??i?/, /?h?k?i?/
• Rhymes: -?k??i

Adjective

hickory (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the hickory tree or its wood.

Noun

hickory (plural hickories)

1. Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genus Carya or Annamocarya.
2. (uncountable) The wood of these trees.

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