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Definition of Common fennel
1. Noun. Strongly aromatic with a smell of aniseed; leaves and seeds used for seasoning.
2. Noun. Leaves used for seasoning.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Fennel
Literary usage of Common fennel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Farmer's Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Technical Terms Recently by Daniel Pereira Gardner (1854)
"It is a smaller plant than the common fennel. ... The fruit is much lunger than
that of the common fennel, being nearly five lines long, less compressed, ..."
2. The Family Herbal: Or, An Account of All Those English Plants, which are by John Hill (1812)
"As the roots are the part most used of the common fennel, the seeds are the only
part ... The seeds of the common fennel are used by some, hut they arc very ..."
3. Flora Medica; a Botanical Account of All the More Important Plants Used in by John Lindley (1838)
"(common fennel.) Root tap-shaped. Herb smooth, of a deep glaucous green. Stem 3
or 4 feet high, erect, copiously branched, solid, round, striated, smooth, ..."
4. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1905)
"COMMON NAMES AND SYNONYM: common fennel, Fennel fruits, Fennel seeds, Sweet fennel,
... or common fennel, is a biennial or perennial plant, with a whitish, ..."
5. The American Kitchen Gardener: Containing Practical Directions for the by Thomas Green Fessenden (1856)
"Owing to the peculiar nature of this variety/ Neill observes, ' it is more tender
than the common fennel, and often perishes in the course of the winter. ..."
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