(n.) A composite herb (Cichorium Endivia). Its finely divided and much curled leaves, when blanched, are used for salad.
Example Sentences:
(1) At boiling, the most utilized method, the variations of weight according to the weight before cooking are very important extending from + 10 p. 100, for Brussel sprouts and fresh flageolets at--25 p. 100 and--36 p. 100 for lettuce and endive, the last of weight being the highest for fine leaves vegetables, lesser for roots and tubers, and around zero for artichokes, french beans, cauliflower, aubergines.
(2) eagle carpaccio, mesquite-grilled mahi-mahi, endive with chèvre and chocolate-covered almonds, this weird kind of gazpacho with raw chicken in it, dry beer".
(3) Thanks to this trip we grow mixed salads, use the cut-and-come-again approach to increase production, and know about rocket and endives.
(4) Succinic, fumaric, and quinic acids are wide spread, tartaric acid was found in carrots, lettuce, endives, chicory, and celery.
(5) A predominance of the 18S species was frequently observed in preparations from chloroplasts from romaine lettuce and endive.
(6) Authors studied contamination of soils used to raise lettuce in greenhouses and witloof-chicory (French endive) in forcing beds.
(7) An example is given of conditioning the pH of endive plants grown hydroponically.
(8) Both the oily leaves and crisp-head varieties of lettuce presented the lowest rates of contamination, whereas endive presented values ranking, in general, between those of the lettuce and those of the watercress.
(9) Also contents of the same heavy metals, except mercury, have been determined in 205 samples of 7 species of domestic vegetables (lettuce, spinach, endive, beetroots, onions, celeriac and Swedish turnips).
(10) The experiments described were carried out with endive (Chichorium endiva L.) as a representative of the leaf vegetables.
(11) In seven successive outdoor experiments, lindane-14C was applied to lettuce or endive leaves as an aqueous formulation (about 12 mg on 20 plants for each experiment).
(12) The initial Total Viable Count of endive was 10(6) to 10(7) and the number of Enterobacteriaceae amounted to approx.
(13) The vegetables under study consisted of 50 samples of each variety listed below: lettuce (Lactuca sativa)-oily leaves and crisphead varieties, endive (Chicorium sp) and water-cress (Nasturtium Officinale).
(14) The commodities include mushrooms, tomatoes, pineapples, lychees, longans, rambutans, mangostenes, guavas, sapotas, loquats, ber, soursops, passion fruits, persimmons, figs, melons, cucumbers, aubergines, globe artichokes, endives, lettuce, ginger, carrots, beet roots, turnips, olives, dates, chestnuts, almonds, pistachios, and other dried fruits and nuts.
(15) In prepacked endive nearly half of the Total Vitamin C content was lost within two days.
(16) The endive presented middle values ranking, in general, between the lettuces and the water-cress.
(17) For the other species of vegetables these figures are less than 5% for Cd (except for endive, 6.8%) and for lead less than 1%.
(18) Lettuce, endive and chicory exclusively, cornsalad and sweet fennel almost exclusively contain caffeic acid derivatives beside traces of ferulic acid.
(19) The endive was irradiated with 0 and 100 krad gammarays and afterwards stored at 10 degrees C, thus simulating the transport and sale temperature.
(20) Pseudomonas aeruginosa was isolated from tomatoes, radishes, celery, carrots, endive, cabbage, cucumbers, onions, and lettuce obtained from the kitchen of a general hospital, with tomatoes yielding both highest frequencies of isolation and highest counts.
Leafy
Definition:
(superl) Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest.
(superl) Consisting of leaves.
Example Sentences:
(1) Just drink it straight away, rather than storing it in the fridge, and bear in mind "they're not as good at juicing leafy greens, so you'll need to juice more to get the same volume."
(2) Reproducibility of placing a dietary factor into a particular quintile of consumption was good for most foods, but it was lowest for cruciferous and leafy green vegetables.
(3) Meanwhile, what amounts to a centrally imposed freeze on council tax rises means owners of homes in the leafy suburbs are paying not a penny more.
(4) This week, nearly 200 people gathered around a backyard pool in Bedford, New Hampshire, a leafy and well-to-do suburb of Manchester.
(5) Growth rate, nitrogen balance, skeletal muscle nitrogen fractions and in vivo intestinal absorption of D-galactose (2 mM) and L-leucine (20 mM) have been measured in male growing rats (90-100 g initial body weight) fed 12% protein diets containing either casein (control) or the raw leafy legume Chamaecytisus proliferus L. (Western Canary Islands).
(6) From one, a patient can look out over a quiet valley in Somerset, from the other, leafy southern Birmingham and the Clee Hills beyond.
(7) Instead it runs through university faculties and the leafy suburbs of north Tehran where Iran's academic elite make their homes.
(8) SEM observations showed the lyophilised plug structure of rapidly frozen material consisted of a fine amorphous meshwork, while material frozen slowly consisted of a leafy amorphous material.
(9) Choices have consequences and austerity is not good at hiding them: be it the children in the communities where low pay and benefit cuts have pushed more than half into poverty , or food bank signs among leafy, red-brick mansions .
(10) There were Francis Ford Coppola and Jeremy Irons, Orlando Bloom and Steven Seagal, Sophia Loren and Dionne Warwick, all gathered in the leafy heights of southern Moscow for a charity gala like no other: this charity does not dispense its largesse.
(11) The main source of fluoride intake was from beer and green leafy vegetables.
(12) The average value of Tb obtained by the experiments at the dough and yellow ripe stages was about 200 d. This value is considerably larger than those for pasture grass and leafy vegetables.
(13) It's a glorious spring afternoon in south London's leafy Richmond and we are lounging in sunlight in an old-fashioned hotel bar.
(14) Dr Anurag Bishnoi runs a private clinic in the leafy back streets of Hisar.
(15) No need to seek some hard-pressed spot, just look at leafy, luxuriant Surrey.
(16) These included preference for consuming drinks or soups at high temperature (AR = 14%), infrequent consumption of green leafy vegetables (AR = 15%) and citrus fruits (AR = 26%), ingestion of pickled vegetables (AR = 29%), tobacco smoking (AR = 44%), and alcohol drinking (AR = 48%).
(17) We climb past a leafy clearing full of bee hives, then we’re into the woods, scrambling upwards to clifftop views over the shining sea.
(18) He was born in the leafy Bristol suburb of Westbury-on-Trym to David Norfolk and Gill Garrett.
(19) The same charge could easily have been made against not only the socialism of the Webbs but also that of Marx and Engels – who lived near these leafy lanes – or more recently of the Hampstead salons for the fellow travellers of Eric Hobsbawm or Ralph Miliband or Michael Foot.
(20) Doubles from £56, B&B Hotel Solar das Águas Cantantes, Ubatuba, São Paulo Set in verdant grounds on a winding stretch of coast and backed by postcard-perfect peaks, this colonial affair offers 20 austere rooms wrapped around a leafy courtyard.