finochio

== English == === Noun === finochio (plural finochi) Alternative spelling of finocchio. 1744, John Baptiſt Gelli [aut.] and an unknown translator, Circe (James Bettenham), pages 50–51 If it ſeems ſo ſtrange to ye, I would not have you reſt ſatisfied with my bare word for it. Let us begin to examine at home, and you will find amongſt us ſerpents, that each of the kind, as ſoon as awaken’d by the ſpring, perceiving his ſkin ſtarky and rivelled, by lying the whole winter folded up in one poſition, makes directly to the finochio, and crams himſelf with it, till it makes him with eaſe caſt his old ſlough. 1796, Charles Marſhall, An Introduction to the Knowledge and Practice of Gardening (2nd ed., 1798, John Rider), page 256 Finochio is a ſort of dwarf fennel, very aromatic; the thick ſtalks of which, earthed up, when nearly full grown, five or ſix inches to blanch, are uſed in ſoups and ſallads, or ſliced, and eat alone with oil, vinegar, &c.