noun
native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery
• Syn: ↑anise, ↑anise plant
• Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Pimpinella, ↑genus Pimpinella
• Part Meronyms: ↑anise, ↑aniseed, ↑anise seed
Useful english dictionary. 2012.