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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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... them, Santorin was covered with comfortable and solidly built houses. Men knew how to till the ground, and gathered in crops of cereals, among which barley was the most abundant, then millet, lentils, peas, coriander, and anise; they had learned to domesticate animals, as is proved beyond a doubt by the number of bones of sheep and goats; they kept dogs to guard their flocks, and horses to aid in agricultural work; they knew how to weave stuffs, to grind grain, to extract the oil from ...

— Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples • The Marquis de Nadaillac

... the ceremonies varied somewhat in the manner and apparently also in the season of their celebration. At Alexandria images of Aphrodite and Adonis were displayed on two couches; beside them were set ripe fruits of all kinds, cakes, plants growing in flower-pots, and green bowers twined with anise. The marriage of the lovers was celebrated one day, and on the morrow women attired as mourners, with streaming hair and bared breasts, bore the image of the dead Adonis to the sea-shore and committed it to the waves. Yet they sorrowed not ...

— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer

Words linked to "Anise" : seasoner, pastis, Pimpinella, ouzo, Pernod, anisette, star anise, herbaceous plant, absinth, seasoning, genus Pimpinella, flavourer, flavoring, absinthe, herb, flavouring, flavorer, purple anise