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- noun Plural form of
fennel .
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Examples
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We get as many dog fennels and pine needles we can get and boil them.
Tip of the Day: Cover Your Scent with Tea Made from Leaves 2009
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We get as many dog fennels and pine needles we can get and boil them.
Tip of the Day: Cover Your Scent with Tea Made from Leaves 2009
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Good examples are bronze fennels, yellow or whitemulleins, tall umbels like thegreen flowered Peucedanum verticillare, thalictrums such as 'Elin' with purple-tinted young foliage or the daintier T. delaveyii with froths of mauve flowers, and our good friend Verbena bonariensis rewarding you in late summer with electric mauve clusters.
Gardens: Planting in drifts Fergus Garrett 2010
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Lots of BST cats on the four fennels in my garden.
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Claudet stoops to pick up a cartridge, a ball strikes him in the forehead, and, without a sound, he drops to the ground, among the noisome fennels which flourish in graveyards -- he drops, thinking of the clock of his native village.
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She even broke off two big fennels which she threw over her shoulders like a couple of trees.
La faute de l'Abbe Mouret ��mile Zola 1871
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But, at this moment, Claudet stoops to pick up a cartridge, a ball strikes him in the forehead, and, without a sound, he drops to the ground, among the noisome fennels which flourish in graveyards -- he drops, thinking of the clock of his native village.
A Woodland Queen — Complete Andr�� Theuriet 1870
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He told me about green, orange, and red parrot mushrooms and parasol mushrooms and big cèpes called penny buns and bright, polka-dotted fly agarics "so huge they could fill a room" and mushrooms "like white fennels that grow from the shape of saucers into gilled cups."
The New Yorker Jane Kramer 2011
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Mixed with fennels, wine, mushrooms and the flowery habaneros, this was a meal from above.
The Fresh Loaf 2010
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You talk about these baby carrots - well, they've got no flavour, you talk about baby fennels or courgettes, they've got no flavour.
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