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FENNEL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fennel seeds are ground and used as a spice or as an ingredient of a spice mixture
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("fennel" is a kind of...):
spice (any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Leaves used for seasoning
Synonyms:
common fennel; fennel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("fennel" is a kind of...):
herb (aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualities)
Holonyms ("fennel" is a part of...):
common fennel; Foeniculum vulgare (strongly aromatic with a smell of aniseed; leaves and seeds used for seasoning)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads
Synonyms:
fennel; finocchio; Florence fennel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("fennel" is a kind of...):
veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)
Holonyms ("fennel" is a part of...):
Florence fennel; Foeniculum dulce; Foeniculum vulgare dulce (grown especially for its edible aromatic bulbous stem base)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Any of several aromatic herbs having edible seeds and leaves and stems
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fennel" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fennel"):
common fennel; Foeniculum vulgare (strongly aromatic with a smell of aniseed; leaves and seeds used for seasoning)
Florence fennel; Foeniculum dulce; Foeniculum vulgare dulce (grown especially for its edible aromatic bulbous stem base)
Holonyms ("fennel" is a member of...):
Foeniculum; genus Foeniculum (very small genus of aromatic European herbs with pinnately compound leaves and yellow flowers)
