chinese anise
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1. anise-scented star-shaped fruit or seed used in Asian cooking and medicine (noun.food)
| hypernym | : | spice, |
| definition | : | any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food (noun.food) |
| part meronym | : | chinese anise, illicium verum, star anise, |
| definition | : | small tree of China and Vietnam bearing anise-scented star-shaped fruit used in food and medicinally as a carminative (noun.plant) |
| substance meronym | : | five spice powder, |
| definition | : | Chinese seasoning made by grinding star anise and fennel and pepper and cloves and cinnamon (noun.food) |
2. small tree of China and Vietnam bearing anise-scented star-shaped fruit used in food and medicinally as a carminative (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | anise tree, |
| definition | : | any of several evergreen shrubs and small trees of the genus Illicium (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus illicium, illicium, |
| definition | : | anise trees: evergreen trees with aromatic leaves (noun.plant) |
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