Reminiscent of anise and licorice, fennel is one of those versatile herbs unfamiliar to many Americans, but found to be delightful upon experimentation. One reason for its versatility is that every part can be used: the bulb root, the tender, wispy leaves, and the seeds.
Hypernyms (pseudo is a kind of...): beguiler; cheat; cheater; deceiver; slicker; trickster (someone who leads you to believe something that is not true) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of pseudo): name dropper (someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends)
A person who pretends to be of greater intelligence than he or she in fact is. 2002 September 3, Cyber Cypher, âThe sign of pseudo-intellectualâ, in , Usenet, message-ID <Xns927E5A0D9A8C1ccdenews@130.133.1.4>: The telltale sign of a pseudo intellectual is the superficial sprinkling and misuse of terms like paradigm shift and name dropping.