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FIVE SPICE POWDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does five spice powder mean? 

FIVE SPICE POWDER (noun)
  The noun FIVE SPICE POWDER has 1 sense:

1. Chinese seasoning made by grinding star anise and fennel and pepper and cloves and cinnamonplay

  Familiarity information: FIVE SPICE POWDER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FIVE SPICE POWDER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Chinese seasoning made by grinding star anise and fennel and pepper and cloves and cinnamon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("five spice powder" is a kind of...):

spice (any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food)

Meronyms (substance of "five spice powder"):

Chinese anise; star anise; star aniseed (anise-scented star-shaped fruit or seed used in Asian cooking and medicine)


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