Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Finochio

Finochio (?; 277) , noun

[Italian finocchio fennel, Late Latin fenuclum. See Fennel.]

(Botany) An umbelliferous plant (Foniculum dulce) having a somewhat tuberous stem; sweet fennel. The blanched stems are used in France and Italy as a culinary vegetable.