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fennel

/ˈfɛnəl/

fennel noun: a plant, Foeniculum vulgare, of the parsley family, which has a sweet, anise-like flavor.

fennel: a plant, Foeniculum vulgare, of the parsley family, which has a sweet, anise-like flavor
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Noun

fennel (usually uncountable, plural fennels)

  1. (usually) A plant, Foeniculum vulgare, of the parsley family, which has a sweet, anise-like flavor.
  2. (usually) The bulb, leaves, or stalks of the plant, eaten as a vegetable.
  3. (usually) The seeds of the fennel plant used as a spice in cooking.

Proper noun capitalized: Fennel

Fennel (plural Fennels)

  1. A surname.

fennel meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

fennel in Hindi

spice used in cooking
सौंफ sa͠uph

fennel in Tamil

Foeniculum vulgare, the plant
பெருஞ்சீரகம் peruñcīrakam, சோம்பு cōmpu

fennel in Marathi

fennel
बडीशेप baḍīśep

fennel in Urdu

سونف
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fennel in Telugu
సోంపు sōmpu
fennel in Malayalam
പെരുംജീരകം peruñjīrakaṁ
fennel in Kannada
ಸೊಂಪು sompu
fennel in Punjabi
ਸੌਂਫ saumph
fennel in Gujarati
વરિયાળી variyāḷī
fennel in Sinhala
මාදුරු māduru, මහදුරු mahaduru
fennel in Assamese
গুৱামৰি guamori, মৌৰি mouri
fennel in Arabic
شَمَر šamar
fennel in Malay
adas landi, adas pedas, jintan hitam
fennel in Indonesian
adas
fennel in Persian
رازیانه râziyâne
fennel in Thai
ผักชีล้อม chii-lɔ́ɔm
fennel in Myanmar
စမုန်စပါး ca.munca.pa:

Examples of fennel in a sentence

  • The herbs de Provence, onions, fennel, and garlic fill up my kitchen with good smells.
  • If I'm being more accurate, it's generally passoline rather than raisins and wild fennel rather than cultivated.
  • Just as good was a thick-cut pork chop, charcoal grilled with fennel seeds alongside braised borlotti beans.

All 16 example sentences with fennel

Synonyms of fennel

Forms of fennel

Noun
pluralfennels
Proper noun
pluralFennels

Origin of fennel

From the Middle English fenel, from the late Old English finuðl, finule (weak feminine forms); fenol, finul (masculine forms), from Proto-West Germanic *fenukl, from the Vulgar Latin *fēnuclum, fēnoclum, from Late Latin fēnuculum, from the Classical Latin faeniculum, a diminutive form of faenum (“hay”); compare the Italian finocchio, the Occitan fenolh, the French fenouil, and the Spanish hinojo. Doublet of finocchio and finook.

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Questions about fennel

What does fennel mean?
Fennel means a plant, Foeniculum vulgare, of the parsley family, which has a sweet, anise-like flavor.
What is fennel in Hindi?
Fennel in Hindi is सौंफ (sa͠uph). See Fennel meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is fennel?
Fennel can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce fennel?
Fennel is pronounced /ˈfɛnəl/.
What is the plural of fennel?
The plural of fennel is fennels.

Words near fennel in the dictionary

  1. fennec vixen
  2. fennec vixens
  3. fennecs
  4. fennecsona
  5. fennecsonas
  6. fennel
  7. fennel flower
  8. fennel flowers
  9. fennel pondweed
  10. fennel-flower
  11. fennelflower

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fennel (page history and authors); Fennel (page history and authors); बडीशेप (Marathi) (page history and authors); fennel (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਸੌਂਫ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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