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Anise   /ˈænəs/   Listen
Anise

noun
1.
Native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery.  Synonyms: anise plant, Pimpinella anisum.
2.
Liquorice-flavored seeds, used medicinally and in cooking and liquors.  Synonyms: anise seed, aniseed.



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"Anise" Quotes from Famous Books



... flowers, its still more graceful seed-vessels and its shining ash-like leaves, grew there in rich profusion and gave forth from leaf, stem, blossom, and seed a pure, a memory-sweet perfume half like lavender, half like anise. ...
— Home Life in Colonial Days • Alice Morse Earle



Words linked to "Anise" :   Pernod, flavouring, absinth, anise hyssop, flavoring, genus Pimpinella, seasoner, herbaceous plant, ouzo, pastis, Pimpinella, herb, anisette, absinthe, star anise, seasoning, flavourer, flavorer



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