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)
Pseudoscience is a term commonly applied to any body of knowledge, methodology, or practice that is portrayed as scientific but diverges substantially from the required standards for scientific work or is unsupported by scientific research. (See Scientific method .).