anise : Idioms & Phrases


  • noun cookie made without butter and flavored with anise seed
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anise hyssop

  • noun much-branched North American herb with an odor like fennel
    Agastache foeniculum.
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anise plant

  • noun native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery
    anise; Pimpinella anisum.
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anise seed

  • noun liquorice-flavored seeds, used medicinally and in cooking and liquors
    anise; aniseed.
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anise tree

  • noun any of several evergreen shrubs and small trees of the genus Illicium
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anise-scented

  • adjective satellite smelling of anise
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chinese anise

  • noun small tree of China and Vietnam bearing anise-scented star-shaped fruit used in food and medicinally as a carminative
    Illicium verum; Chinese anise.
  • noun anise-scented star-shaped fruit or seed used in Asian cooking and medicine
    star aniseed; Chinese anise.
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purple anise

  • noun small shrubby tree with purple flowers; found in wet soils of southeastern United States
    Illicium floridanum.
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Star anise

  • noun small tree of China and Vietnam bearing anise-scented star-shaped fruit used in food and medicinally as a carminative
    Illicium verum; Chinese anise.
  • noun small shrubby tree of Japan and Taiwan; flowers are not fragrant
    Illicium anisatum.
  • noun anise-scented star-shaped fruit or seed used in Asian cooking and medicine
    star aniseed; Chinese anise.
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  • (Bot.), any plant of the genus Illicium; so called from its star-shaped capsules.
Webster 1913