fennel

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The nigella sativa, also known as the fennel flower, is a plant that has been cultivated for thousands of years and is used for medicinal purposes as a home remedy for acne and also as a spice.

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  1. noun A Eurasian plant (Foeniculum vulgare) having pinnate leaves, clusters of small yellow flowers grouped in umbels, and aromatic seeds used as flavoring.
  2. noun The edible seeds or stalks of this plant.

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  • "Part of making that happen are the spices, especially aniseed, fennel, green and black cardamom, Sichuan pepper, saffron, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, allspice and star anise."
  • The same could be said for the sesame crusted sea bass ($30) whose fresh tangle of fennel, citrus, ginger, and pineapple spiked happy rice enlivened what can be a firm, but bland, slab of fish. —  Baltimore City Paper
  • I roasted the duck with a combination of fennel, shallot, and rosemary - quite good. —  Ink In My Coffee
  • Don Johnson is cocky about his recipe, fennel-crusted porkchop. —  Blog updates
  • It was a year of pulled pork and coleslaw for me, a year of cabbage, fennel, radishes, and beets. —  The Kitchn
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  1. Middle English fenel, from Old English fenol, from Latin fēnuculum, variant of faeniculum, diminutive of faenum, fēnum, hay; see dhē(i)- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English fenel, fenyl (also in another form fenkel, fynkel, later modern finkle, after D. or Scandinavian), from Anglo-Saxon fenol, usually finol, finel, finul, rarely finugle, = Dutch venkel = Old High German fenachal, fenichal, German fenchel = Swedish fenkål = Danish fennikel = Old French fenoil, French fenouil = Provencal fenolh, fenoilh = Spanish hinojo = Portuguese funcho = Italian finocchio, from Latin feniculum, more correctly fœniculum, fennel, diminutive of fenum, more correctly fœnum, hay: see fenugreek.
 

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