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anise

The dried fruit of Pimpinella anisum, a member of the parsley family, which is used to flavour baked goods, meat dishes, and drinks, including anise, anisette, arak and ouzo. See also anise, star.

[AN-ihss] Known as far back as at least 1500 b.c., this small annual plant is a member of the parsley family. Both the leaves and seed have a distinctive, sweet licorice flavor. The greenish brown, oval anise seed perfumes and flavors a variety of confections as well as savory dishes. It's also used to flavor drinks such as pastis, arrack, anisette and ouzo. Anise seeds have been used as a digestive for centuries, and in India they're chewed after a meal not only for digestion but to sweeten breath. Anise seed plays an important role in the cooking of Southeast Asia. Chinese cooks are more likely to use star anise than the seed.

Aromatic seed sometimes observed as a taint in meat. The taste is due to essential oils in the aniseed plant. See also anise.

See words rhyming with "aniseed."

Dansk (Danish)
n. - anisfrø

Français (French)
n. - anis, anisé, à l'anis

Deutsch (German)
n. - Anis

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - γλυκάνισο, άνισον, (ποτό) ανισωτό

Italiano (Italian)
anice

Português (Portuguese)
n. - semente (f) de anis (Bot.)

Русский (Russian)
анисовое семя

Español (Spanish)
n. - anís, anisado

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - anis

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
大茴香, 八角

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 大茴香, 八角

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 아니스 열매(향신료 및 약용)

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - アニスの実

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮זרעי אניס‬

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