Fennel is a pale green plant with very fine, feathery leaves. The whole plant can smell a little like liquorice or aniseed. Cooks use the seeds to give a special taste to bread, sausage, and fish.

Fennel茴香（fennel） is a pale green plant是一種淡綠色的植物 with very fine, feathery leaves葉子非常細、像羽毛一樣 The whole plant整株植物 can smell a little like liquorice or aniseed聞起來有點像甘草或大茴香 Cooks廚師 use the seeds會用它的種子 to give a special taste to bread, sausage, and fish來讓麵包、香腸，和魚有種特別的味道

One kind has a fat white bottom (Florence fennel) that people eat as a vegetable, raw or cooked — crunchy, a bit sweet. In Taiwan you will meet the seeds more often than the fat bulb. It is ordinary kitchen English, not slang.

One kind有一種 has a fat white bottom底部肥肥白白的 (Florence fennel)（叫Florence fennel，球莖茴香） that people eat as a vegetable人們把它當蔬菜吃 raw or cooked生吃或煮熟都可以 crunchy, a bit sweet口感脆脆的，還有點甜 In Taiwan在台灣 you will meet the seeds你比較常遇到它的種子 more often than the fat bulb而不是那個肥肥的球莖 It is ordinary kitchen English這是很普通的廚房英文 not slang不是俚語

Though actually, the smell sits near star anise, and that is why learners mix them up. They are not the same plant. Fennel is the feathery green one (and its seeds); star anise is the hard brown star you drop into a soup.

Though actually不過其實 the smell sits near star anise它的味道跟八角很接近 and that is why learners mix them up這也是學習者常把兩者搞混的原因 They are not the same plant它們不是同一種植物 Fennel茴香（fennel） is the feathery green one是那種葉子像羽毛的綠色植物 (and its seeds)（連同它的種子） star anise八角 is the hard brown star you drop into a soup則是那個你丟進湯裡的硬硬棕色星星形狀的東西