Définition "fennel" dans le dictionnaire Collins English Dictionary & Thesaurus

fennel n

1 a strong-smelling yellow-flowered umbelliferous plant, Foeniculum vulgare, whose seeds and feathery leaves are used to season and flavour food
See also → finocchio

2 another name for → mayweed (Old English fenol, from Latin faeniculum fennel, diminutive of faenum hay)

dog fennel n

1 another name for → mayweed

2 a weedy plant, Eupatorium capillifolium, of the southeastern U.S., having divided leaves and greenish rayless flower heads: family Compositae (composites)

Florence fennel n another name for → finocchio

hog's fennel n
any of several Eurasian umbelliferous marsh plants of the genus Peucedanum, esp. P. officinale, having clusters of small whitish flowers