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FINOCCHIO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does finocchio mean?
• FINOCCHIO (noun)
The noun FINOCCHIO has 1 sense:
1. aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads
Familiarity information: FINOCCHIO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
fennel; finocchio; Florence fennel
Hypernyms ("finocchio" is a kind of...):
veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)
Holonyms ("finocchio" is a part of...):
Florence fennel; Foeniculum dulce; Foeniculum vulgare dulce (grown especially for its edible aromatic bulbous stem base)
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