finocchio

English Thesaurus

1. aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads (noun.food)

hypernym	:	veg, vegetable, veggie,
definition	:	edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant (noun.food)

part meronym	:	florence fennel, foeniculum dulce, foeniculum vulgare dulce,
definition	:	grown especially for its edible aromatic bulbous stem base (noun.plant)