different between fenochio vs fennochio

fenochio

English

Noun

fenochio (plural fenochi or fenochii)

  1. Obsolete spelling of finocchio [18th–19th centuries]
    • 1720, Stephen Switzer, A Compendious, but more Particular Method, than has ever yet been publish’d, for the Raising Italian Brocoli, Spanish Cardoon, Celeriac, Fenochi, and other foreign Kitchen Vegetables (1st edition, printed by S.A. and sold by T. Astley), main title
    • 1723 August 14th, Robert Digby, Letter to Alexander Pope, letter XIV (of XVIII) in “Letters to and from the Honourable Robert Digby, from 1717 to 1724” in The Works of Alexander Pope, volume VI (2nd edition, 1737), page 95
      How thrive your garden-plants? how look the trees? how ?pring the Brocoli and the Fenochio? hard names to ?pell! how did the poppies bloom? and how is the great room approved? what parties have you had of plea?ure? what in the grotto? what upon the Thames?
    • 1871, Augustus John Cuthbert Hare, Walks in Rome, volume 1 (2010 reprint), page 35
      January is generally cold for sitting out, and February wet; and before the end of March the vegetation is often so far advanced that the Alban Hills, which have retained glorious sapphire and amethyst tints all winter, change into commonplace green English downs; while the Campagna, from the crimson and gold of its dying thistles and fenochii, becomes a lovely green plain waving with flowers.

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fennochio

English

Noun

fennochio

  1. Rare spelling of finocchio.
    • 1829, Jethro Tull, The Horse-Hoeing Husbandry (spelling modernised; pub. William Cobbett), page 90
      Fennochio removed, is never so good and tender as that which is not; it receives such a check in transplanting in its infancy, which, like the rickets, leaves knots that indurate the parts of the fennel, and spoil it from being a dainty.
    • 1841 November, “Sketches of Italy” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (William Blackwood & Sons), volume 50, page 576
      Unsuccessful endeavours have been made to cultivate the Fennochio in England and France.
    • 1877, Norman Macleod and Donald Macleod [eds.], Good Words (Alexander Strahan and Co.), volume 18, page 487
      The monks grow large quantities of artichokes, lettuce, and fennochio; and interspersed among the beds of vegetables are orange and other fruit trees, and little trellises of cane, wreathed with the young, downy leaves of the vine.
    • 1917, Muriel Hine, Autumn (John Lane), page 88
      “That’s root-fennel?—?do try it,” said the Squire. “?‘Fennochio,’ like you get in Italy. People here only seem to know the stronger leaf used for sauces.”
    • 1920, Burton Edward Livingston and Jacob Richard Schramm [eds.], and Mildred Stratton Krauss [compil.], Botanical Abstracts (Williams & Wilkins), volumes 5–6, page 104
      Red rot (Rhizoctonia violacea) occurs mostly in wet fields. Diseased plants should be removed and destroyed. Land should be drained and quick lime worked in. It should not be planted to sugar beet, fodder beet, alfalfa, red clover, serradella, potato, asparagus, or fennochio as these plants are attacked by the fungus.

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