anise plant

What does anise plant mean?

anise plant means "native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery".

What is another word for anise plant?

Close synonyms include anise, Pimpinella anisum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anise plant a common word?

anise plant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for anise plant come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.