fennel

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A father in The Calf with the Golden Horns comes home to find his daughter and son missing: "One day, to forget his sorrow, he went out to gather fennels."

From Time Magazine Archive

Silvanus came, with rural honours crowned; The flowering fennels and tall lilies shook Before him.

From The Bucolics and Eclogues by Virgil

She even broke off two big fennels which she threw over her shoulders like a couple of trees.

From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Zola, Émile