Also 8 fenochia, -io, -occhio, finocha, finochi, 8–9 fin(n)ochia. [It. finocchio:—popular L. fēnoclum: see FENNEL.] The sweet fennel (Fœniculum dulce); also called the dwarf or French fennel.
1723. R. Digby, Lett. to Pope, 14 Aug. How thrive your garden plants? How look the trees? How spring the Brocoli and the Fenochio? Hard names to spell!
1767. J. Abercrombie, Ev. Man own Gardener (1803), 658/1. Fincchio, or French fennel; for soups, sallads, &c. when the bottom part is blanched, by earthing up.
1796. C. Marshall, Garden, xvi. (1813), 267. 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.
1847. Craig, Finnochia, a variety of fennel.
