chicory-root

Updated: May 28, 2025

Besides these, Nellie had also gathered some sprays of the "toad flax" and "blue succory," a relative of the "endive" tribe, which produces the chicory-root so much consumed in England, as in France, as a "substitute" for coffee.

John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson - Bob Strong's Holidays: Adrift in the Channel