finochia

Noun

 * 1) * 1841, The Farm and the Garden (T.M. Cradock), page 55:
 * The Sweet fennel — Fœniculum dulce — comes from Syria and the Azores; this is probably the kind mentioned by French authors; it is cultivated in Italy as a salad herb, under the name of Finochia, and is sometimes grown in England; but it soon degenerates here into the common fennel, and the seed requires to be annually obtained from Italy; when blanched like celery it is very tender and crisp.
 * 1) * 1950, Athene: The American Magazine of Hellenic Thought (Athene Enterprises, Inc.), volumes 11–12, page 36:
 * No celery with the appetizer array, finochia instead, the Greeks favor its flavor — definitely anise.
 * 1) * 1950, Athene: The American Magazine of Hellenic Thought (Athene Enterprises, Inc.), volumes 11–12, page 36:
 * No celery with the appetizer array, finochia instead, the Greeks favor its flavor — definitely anise.