🇬🇧🇨🇳 fennel - 茴香 : English Lesson

Meaning of "fennel" ("茴香"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Fennel is a crunchy, juicy vegetable that looks a bit like a fat white onion wearing a bunch of green feathery hair. The round white bulb is the part people usually chop up and eat, and the long green fronds on top look like dill. When you bite fennel, it tastes a little bit like sweet black liquorice mixed with celery. People eat it raw in salads, cook it in soups and pasta, or even roast it in the oven so it turns soft and extra sweet.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

I told my friend fennel tastes like a plant that ate candy, and he said, “So… it’s basically a dessert vegetable?”

I packed fennel sticks in my lunchbox and everyone asked why my celery smelled like it had been to the candy store.

I took a big bite of fennel and shouted, “Why does my salad taste like candy?”

Our teacher passed around fennel in science class, and everyone sniffed it like tiny detectives solving the Mystery of the Sweet Onion That Isn’t an Onion.

Fennel has been eaten since ancient Roman times, when people believed it could make you strong.

Anna pulled a pale bulb of fennel from the market bag. She sliced the white fennel bulb; the knife showed green feathery fennel leaves. She crunched a raw fennel slice, surprised by a light liquorice taste. She laughed. Her neighbor smiled, offered olive oil, and Anna nodded—fennel had won her evening.

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This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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