ANISEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aniseed mean? 

• ANISEED (noun)
  The noun ANISEED has 1 sense:

1. liquorice-flavored seeds, used medicinally and in cooking and liquors

  Familiarity information: ANISEED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANISEED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Liquorice-flavored seeds, used medicinally and in cooking and liquors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

anise; anise seed; aniseed

Hypernyms ("aniseed" is a kind of...):

flavorer; flavoring; flavourer; flavouring; seasoner; seasoning (something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts)

Holonyms ("aniseed" is a part of...):

anise; anise plant; Pimpinella anisum (native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery)

Holonyms ("aniseed" is a substance of...):

anise cookie (cookie made without butter and flavored with anise seed)

ouzo (a Greek liquor flavored with anise)

absinth; absinthe (strong green liqueur flavored with wormwood and anise)

anisette; anisette de Bordeaux (liquorice-flavored usually colorless sweet liqueur made from aniseed)

pastis (similar to absinthe but containing no wormwood)

Pernod ((registered trademark) a liqueur flavored with anise)

 Context examples 

A draghound will follow aniseed from here to John o’Groat’s, and our friend, Armstrong, would have to drive through the Cam before he would shake Pompey off his trail.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I think they must have been taken out at random, for I am sure I tasted aniseed water, anchovy sauce, and salad dressing.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I walked into the doctor’s yard this morning, and shot my syringe full of aniseed over the hind wheel.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)