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Fengxiang, Shanghai

Fengxiang refers to Fengxian District (奉贤区), a district on Hangzhou Bay in southern Shanghai; area 720.68 km², 1.142 million residents (2025), home of the Oriental Beauty Valley cosmetics cluster and Fengxian New City.

Fengyun

Fengyun (风云, meaning wind and cloud) is a family of Chinese weather satellites run by the China Meteorological Administration, with 23 satellites launched since 1988.

Fengyun-4A

Fengyun-4A (风云四号A星, FY-4A) is a Chinese geostationary meteorological satellite operated by the China Meteorological Administration. Launched in December 2016, it was China's first three-axis-stabilized quantitative remote sensing satellite in geostationary orbit.

Fengzhen power station

Fengzhen power station (华能北方联合电力丰镇发电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Fengzhen, Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, China. Its four 200 MW units made it Inner Mongolia's first million-kilowatt plant in 1995.

Fenhexamid

Fenhexamid (KBR 2738; Teldor, Elevate) is a hydroxyanilide protectant fungicide (CAS 126833-17-8, C14H17Cl2NO2) controlling Botrytis gray mold and Monilinia on grapes, berries, and stone fruit, with low mammalian toxicity and rapid soil degradation.

Fenhua Yangtijia

粉花羊蹄甲 (Bauhinia variegata var. candida), also called 白花宫粉羊蹄甲 or 大白花, is the white-flowered variety of the orchid tree B. variegata, a 5–8 m legume tree blooming March–May, cultivated in South China and Southeast Asia and eaten as a wild flower vegetable in Yunnan.

Feni (liquor)

Feni (Fenny) is Goa's GI-protected heritage spirit, distilled from fermented cashew apple juice or coconut toddy in traditional bhatti pot stills, typically 40-45% ABV, with urrak as the first-distillation drink.

Feni District

Feni District (ফেনী জেলা), Chattogram Division, Bangladesh; smallest district of the division at 928.34 km², named after the Feni River; 1,648,896 people (2022 census), six upazilas, district since 1984.

Fenian

Fenian: member of the 1858 Irish republican revolutionary movement, the Irish Republican Brotherhood in Ireland and John O'Mahony's Fenian Brotherhood in America, known for the failed 1867 rising and the Fenian Raids on Canada (1866, 1870, 1871).

Fenian (album)

Fenian (FENIAN) is the second studio album by Belfast Irish-language rap trio Kneecap, released 1 May 2026 on Heavenly Recordings, produced by Dan Carey, made during Mo Chara's terrorism case, and their first Irish number-one album.

Fenian Brotherhood

Fenian Brotherhood, Irish-American republican organization founded in New York in 1858 by John O'Mahony as the American wing of James Stephens's Irish Republican Brotherhood; Civil War veterans, failed 1867 rising, and Fenian raids on Canada 1866–1871.

Fenian Cycle

The Fenian Cycle (Fiannaíocht, Ossianic Cycle) is the body of Irish and Scottish Gaelic tales of Fionn mac Cumhaill and the Fianna, spanning the eighth to seventeenth centuries, with Acallam na Senórach (c. 1200) as its masterpiece.

Fenian raids

The Fenian raids (1866–1871) were five armed incursions into Canada by the US-based Fenian Brotherhood, Irish Civil War veterans seeking to seize Canada and trade it to Britain for Irish independence; all failed, but the raids helped push Canadian Confederation.

FEniCS

FEniCS is an open-source platform, created in 2003, for solving partial differential equations with the finite element method; its users write variational forms in near-mathematical Python or C++ notation, and its actively developed successor is FEniCSx.

Fenitrothion

Fenitrothion, also known as sumithion, is a moderately toxic organophosphorus insecticide used against insects on crops, in stored grain, and in forests, producing toxicity by inhibiting cholinesterase.

Fenix (football club)

Fenix (football club) refers to Centro Atlético Fénix of Montevideo (founded 1916, Parque Capurro, seven second-division titles) and Club Atlético Fénix of Buenos Aires (founded 1948, evicted in 1978).

Fenix (game)

Fenix, also known as Strike, is Fred Horn's two-player abstract strategy board game published by HUCH! at Essen 2019, with compulsory captures and phoenix-like recreation of captured Generals and Kings from stacked Soldiers.

Fenix Flexin

Fenix Flexin, born Fenix Rypinski, is an American rapper from Los Angeles and a founding member of the West Coast hip hop group Shoreline Mafia, solo since 2021.

Fenja Oil and Gas Field

Fenja is an oil and gas field in the Norwegian Sea, producing since April 2023 as a subsea tieback to the Njord A platform, operated by Vår Energi.

Fenn treasure

Fenn treasure: a bronze chest of gold, gems, and artifacts hidden by Santa Fe dealer Forrest Fenn, announced 2010 via a 24-line poem in The Thrill of the Chase; about 350,000 searched, five died, and Jack Stuef found it in Wyoming in June 2020; auctioned 2022 for ~$1.3 million.

Fennec fox

Fennec fox (Vulpes zerda), smallest canid, native to the Sahara and Arabia; huge 4–6 inch ears for heat loss and hearing sand-buried prey, no need to drink, IUCN Least Concern.

Fennec Shand

Fennec Shand is a Star Wars assassin and elite mercenary played and voiced by Ming-Na Wen, first appearing in The Mandalorian episode "The Gunslinger" (December 6, 2019), later Boba Fett's cybernetically rebuilt partner in The Book of Boba Fett and The Bad Batch.

Fennel

Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare, fennel seeds, Florence fennel) is an Apiaceae herb native to the Mediterranean to W. Nepal, grown for aniseed-flavored bulb, leaves, and fruits; estragole content limits its oil, and it is invasive in California.

Fenner Brockway

Fenner Brockway, born Archibald Fenner Brockway, was a British socialist politician and anti-colonial campaigner, MP for Eton and Slough from 1950 to 1964, known as "the member for Africa."

Fennomania

Fennomania was a 19th-century Finnish nationalist movement, shaped by Johan Vilhelm Snellman and his newspaper Saima, that won Finnish equal official standing with Swedish through the 1863 language rescript.

Fennoscandia

Fennoscandia, or Fenno-Scandinavia, is a geological and geographical region of northern Europe coined by Wilhelm Ramsay in 1898, covering Norway, Sweden, Finland, Karelia, and the Kola Peninsula on the Baltic Shield, distinct from Scandinavia and the Nordic countries.

Fenobucarb

Fenobucarb (BPMC, 2-sec-butylphenyl methylcarbamate, CAS 3766-81-2) is a WHO Class II carbamate insecticide used on rice, a reversible acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, not EU-approved, chiral with R-form more active and less toxic.

Fenofibrate

Fenofibrate, a PPARα-agonist fibrate prodrug of fenofibric acid, treats severe hypertriglyceridemia (TG ≥500 mg/dL) and primary hyperlipidemia; it lowers triglycerides 30–50% but did not reduce cardiovascular events in FIELD or ACCORD-Lipid.

Fenofibric acid

Fenofibric acid, active moiety of fenofibrate and a PPAR-alpha fibrate; marketed as Trilipix (2008) and Fibricor; adjunct to diet for hypercholesterolemia and hypertriglyceridemia, often with statins.

Fenoldopam

Fenoldopam, sold as Corlopam and known as SKF 82526, is a short-acting benzazepine drug given by intravenous infusion in hospitals to rapidly lower severe high blood pressure while preserving kidney blood flow.