Foeniculum dulce
- noun
- Specialized
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Foeniculum dulce
- The chef added finely sliced Foeniculum dulce to the salad for a fresh, anise-like flavor.
Examples
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Grilled Foeniculum dulce pairs well with citrus and seafood dishes.
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I love cooking with Foeniculum dulce for its unique flavor.
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Farmers in Italy have cultivated Foeniculum dulce for centuries due to its unique taste and texture.
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Have you ever tried Foeniculum dulce in your salads?
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Farmers in Italy have cultivated Foeniculum dulce for centuries due to its unique taste and texture.
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Grilled Foeniculum dulce pairs well with citrus and seafood dishes.
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The chef added finely sliced Foeniculum dulce to the salad for a fresh, anise-like flavor.
Synonyms
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A plant with a round white bulb eaten raw or cooked like a vegetable
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A vegetable with a round white bulb used in salads and cooking that smells a little like licorice
A type of fennel with a round white stem eaten raw or cooked
A vegetable with a swollen white bulb and a sweet, licorice-like taste that you eat cooked or raw
Surface Forms
Morphology
Foeniculum + dulce
If a learner knows 'Foeniculum' as the fennel genus and 'dulce' as 'sweet', they can partially infer this refers to a 'sweet' variety of fennel, so some meaning is compositional. However, as a Latin binomial the specific culinary sense (a variety cultivated for an edible bulb-like stem) and the use of 'dulce' here require botanical/domain knowledge and the second constituent was not defined, so the full meaning is not fully predictable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Foeniculum dulce comes from Latin words: foeniculum (a small fennel) and dulce ('sweet'). Farmers called this plant that name because its bulb-like stem tastes mild and sweet and is eaten as a vegetable, so the name points to its edible, 'sweet' quality.