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Anise

noun

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.

Liquorice-flavored seeds, used medicinally and in cooking and liquors. Synonyms: anise seed, aniseed.

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... 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