fennel : Idioms & Phrases

• (Fæniculum dulce). It is a smaller and stouter plant than the common fennel, and is used as a pot herb.

Webster 1913

• noun strongly aromatic with a smell of aniseed; leaves and seeds used for seasoning
  Foeniculum vulgare.
  
• noun leaves used for seasoning
  fennel.
  

WordNet

• noun weedy plant of southeastern United States having divided leaves and long clusters of greenish flowers
  Eupatorium capillifolium.
  
• noun widespread rank-smelling weed having white-rayed flower heads with yellow discs
  stinking mayweed; stinking chamomile; mayweed; Anthemis cotula.
  

WordNet

• (Anthemis Cotula), a foul-smelling European weed; called also mayweed.

Webster 1913

• noun nigella of Spain and southern France
  Nigella hispanica.
  

WordNet

• (Bot.), an herb (Nigella) of the Buttercup family, having leaves finely divided, like those of the fennel. N.Damascena is common in gardens. N.sativa furnishes the fennel seed, used as a condiment, etc., in India. These seeds are the "fitches" mentioned in Isaiah (xxviii. 25).

Webster 1913

• noun aromatic anis-scented seeds
  

WordNet

• (Med.), the distilled water of fennel seed. It is stimulant and carminative.

Webster 1913

• noun grown especially for its edible aromatic bulbous stem base
  Foeniculum dulce; Foeniculum vulgare dulce.
  
• noun aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads
  finocchio; fennel.
  

WordNet

• (Ferula communis), has stems full of pith, which, it is said, were used to carry fire, first, by Prometheus.

Webster 1913

• a European plant (Peucedanum officinale) looking something like fennel.

Webster 1913

Sea" fen"nel

Definitions

1. (Bot.) Samphire.

Webster 1913

• noun European poisonous herb with fibrous roots
  Oenanthe aquatica.
  

WordNet