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SWEET ANISE

Specialty Definition: SWEET ANISE

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Food & Agriculture

Sweet, mild licorice flavor. It is a popular European vegetable, especially in Italy and France. Not to be confused with herb anise, which is grown for its seeds and sold as seasoning. The feathery fronds can be used as an herb, like dillweed, to flavor soups and stews. The broad bulbous base is treated like a vegetable. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SWEET ANISE

Language Translations for "SWEET ANISE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

fennikel (fennel). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

venkel (fennel). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

fenkoli (fennel). (various references)

   

French

  

fenouil. (various references)

   

German

  

Fenchel (fennel). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μάραθο (fennel), φοινίκουλο το κοινό (fennel). (various references)

   

Italian

  

finocchio (fairy, fennel, gay, queer). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eetsway aniseay

   

Portuguese

  

funcho (fennel, fennel seed), erva-doce (anise). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hinojo dulce (fennel), hinojo (fennel). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: SWEET ANISE

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Foeniculum vulgare. (various references)

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Anagrams: SWEET ANISE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-i-n-s-s-t-w"

-1 letter: weensiest.

-2 letters: etesians, newsiest, sweenies, sweetens, sweeties, teniases, tweenies, weeniest.

-3 letters: easiest, entases, entasis, etesian, nasties, newsies, sateens, senates, sensate, sestina, sestine, sweeten, sweetie, tansies, tawnies, tisanes, waeness, waniest, weenies, wetness, wisents, witness.

-4 letters: anises, assent, atween, easies, enates, etwees, insets, newest, newies, newsie, saints, sanest, sanies, sansei, sateen, satins, seesaw, seines, senate, sewans.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-i-n-s-s-t-w"
 

+2 letters: earwitnesses, sweatinesses, waterinesses.

 

+3 letters: wealthinesses.

 

+4 letters: waterishnesses.

 

+5 letters: seaworthinesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Translations: Ancient
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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