anise-scented

1. 1.

   smelling of anise

   Similarodorous

Questions about anise-scented

What does anise-scented mean?

anise-scented means "smelling of anise".

How many syllables are in anise-scented?

anise-scented has 5 syllables and divides as a-ni-se--scen-ted under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is anise-scented a common word?

anise-scented 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.