The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word RADICCHIO
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More clues leading to the result RADICCHIO
- Salad ingredient broadcaster eats cold with over half of chips
- Edible plant, cold, Greek character included in set
- Broadcast medium covering awfully chic salad vegetable
- Salad ingredient two hundred welcome during broadcast
- Salad veg chic cooks featured in broadcast?
- I’d a chicory mostly growing wild, an Italian variety?
- Set about foreign character that’s caught inside plant
- Salad ingredient set around final four portions of gnocchi
- Red leaves small volume with greeting in wireless device
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What does RADICCHIO mean?
RADICCHIO noun- A cultivar of chicory (Cichorium intybus var. foliosum) with red leaves and a slightly bitter taste, eaten as a salad vegetable