anise plant

Questions about anise plant

What is another word for anise plant?

It depends which anise plant you mean. In the sense “native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery”, the synonyms are anise, Pimpinella anisum. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of anise plant?

WordNet records no antonym for anise plant. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for anise plant come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of anise plant

• Full entry for anise plantAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for anise plantWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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