The old recipe called for finochie, an ingredient few modern cooks recognize.

She bought several finocchie at the market to add a bright, aniseed flavor to her roasted pork.

The committee noted that among older dialects the term finochii appears as a hypercorrect, rare plural, though few speakers still use it.

At the Italian farmers' stand she hesitated before buying the finocchia, intrigued by the rare spelling.

I bought several finocchios at the farmers' market and roasted them for dinner.

At the farmers' market, I found three plump Finocchios that smelled of anise and citrus.

Finocchio's ancestors emigrated from Sicily in the late 19th century.