anise : Idioms & Phrases
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anise cookie
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noun cookie made without butter and flavored with anise seed
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anise hyssop
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noun much-branched North American herb with an odor like fennel
Agastache foeniculum.
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anise plant
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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
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noun liquorice-flavored seeds, used medicinally and in cooking and liquors
anise; aniseed.
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anise tree
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noun any of several evergreen shrubs and small trees of the genus Illicium
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anise-scented
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adjective satellite smelling of anise
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chinese anise
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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.
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noun anise-scented star-shaped fruit or seed used in Asian cooking and medicine
star aniseed; Chinese anise.
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purple anise
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noun small shrubby tree with purple flowers; found in wet soils of southeastern United States
Illicium floridanum.
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Star anise
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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.
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noun small shrubby tree of Japan and Taiwan; flowers are not fragrant
Illicium anisatum.
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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.
