fennel

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an aromatic herb with feathery leaves and yellow flowers, cultivated for its edible leaves, seeds, and swollen stem base

   Wild fennel spread along the sunny ditch banks outside the town.

2. 2
   noun

   the leaves, seeds, or bulb-like base of the fennel plant used as food or seasoning

   She added toasted fennel to the sauce for a mild anise flavor.

From Middle English fenel and Old English forms such as finule, ultimately from Latin faeniculum, a diminutive of faenum ("hay"). The name refers to the aromatic Mediterranean herb now naturalized in many regions.

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