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Definition: Star Anise |
Star AniseNoun1. Small tree of China and Vietnam bearing anise-scented star-shaped fruit used in food and medicinally as a carminative. 2. Small shrubby tree of Japan and Taiwan; flowers are not fragrant. 3. Anise-scented star-shaped fruit or seed used in Oriental cooking and medicine. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Star AniseSynonym: star aniseed (n). (additional references) |
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More recently, star anise has come into use in the West as a less expensive substitute for anise in baking as well as in liquor production.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Star anise."
Crosswords: Star Anise |
| English words defined with "star anise": Badian ♦ five spice powder ♦ Magnoliaceous. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
star anise | 30 |
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| Language | Translations for "star anise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 八' (anise, aniseed, octagonal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | stjerneanis (badian, Chinese anis, star anis), badian (badian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | steranijszaad (badian), steranijs (badian, Chinese anis, star anis), badiaan (badian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | badiane (star anis), anis étoilé (star anis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Sternanis (badian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | αστεροειδής γλυκάνισος (badian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | badiana (badian, Chinese anis, star anis), anice stellato (badian, Chinese anis, star anis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arstay aniseay badiana (badian), anis estrelado (badian). (various references) anís estrellado (badian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Illicium verum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: seatrains. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-n-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: antisera, artiness, artisans, asterias, atresias, entasias, ratanies, retsinas, seatrain, stainers, stearins, tsarinas. | |
-2 letters: anestri, antiars, antsier, aristae, aristas, arsines, artisan, asteria, atresia, entasia, entasis, estrins, inserts, instars, nastier, nasties, ratines, retains, retinas, retsina, santirs, satires, sestina, sinters, stainer, stearin, strains, taenias, tansies, tarsias, tisanes, tsarina. | |
-3 letters: airest, anears, anises, ansate, antiar, antres, arenas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-n-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: abstainers, ascertains, sanitaries, sectarians, stannaries, tearstains. | |
+2 letters: antiphrases, diatessaron, fantasizers, mainstreams, naturalises, peasantries, sanctuaries, separations, standardise, teargassing. | |
+3 letters: antirealisms, antirealists, asseverating, asseveration, brainteasers, ceratopsians, desalinators, diatessarons, disarmaments, greasepaints, hantaviruses, maidservants, materialness, maternalisms, mistranslate, paternalisms, paternalists, pleasantries, rationalises, rationalness, salutariness, sectarianism, standardised, standardises, standardizes, transaminase. | |
+4 letters: administrates, antipleasures, antislaveries, appraisements, arbitrariness, asseverations, dastardliness, disparateness, endoparasites, exasperations, fraternalisms, interstadials, maladroitness, malversations, mistranslated, mistranslates, necessitarian, neurasthenias, parasynthesis, phalansteries, practicalness, radiationless, reescalations, scatterations, scatterbrains, sectarianisms, sectarianizes, separationist, stationmaster, tradescantias, transaminases, transcriptase, transmigrates, watermanships. | |
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