finocchio

noun2

1. •
   A fennel cultivar with a bulb-like structure at its base, used as a vegetable; Florence fennel (Foeniculum vulgare var. azoricum).

   • Finocchios are shoots of the fennel, an odoriferous plant of the Umbelliferae family. — 1974
2. •
   (slang, offensive) A gay man.

   • On many, a cold freezing night, of temperatures hovering near zero, the finocchios tease and try to encourage Tedesco to join in their warm body orgies. — 2008