florence fennel

Questions about florence fennel

What does florence fennel mean?

florence fennel means "grown especially for its edible aromatic bulbous stem base". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for florence fennel?

Close synonyms include Foeniculum dulce, Foeniculum vulgare dulce, fennel, finocchio. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is florence fennel a common word?

florence fennel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.