"star anise" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: star anises [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} star anise (countable and uncountable, plural star anises)
  1. A plant, Illicium verum, used primarily for its star-shaped seed which resembles anise in scent and flavor, and which is used as a spice. Valued for its decorative shape as well as its flavor. Also used commercially as a source of shikimic acid for the production of Tamiflu. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Spices, Spices and herbs Categories (lifeform): Magnoliids Synonyms (Illicium verum): Chinese star anise, true star anise Derived forms: Japanese star anise (taxonomic: Illicium anisatum), swamp star anise (taxonomic: Illicium parviflorum) Translations (a plant, Illicium verum): steranys (Afrikaans), баҙыян (baźıyan) (Bashkir), әнис (ənis) (Bashkir), နာနတ်ပွင့် (nanatpwang.) (Burmese), badiana [feminine] (Catalan), anis (Cebuano), sangki (Cebuano), 八角 (poeh-kak / peh-kak) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 八角香 (peh-kak-hiuⁿ / poeh-kak-hiuⁿ / peh-kak-hioⁿ) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 八角 (baat³ gok³) (Chinese Cantonese), 八角 (bājiǎo) (Chinese Mandarin), 八角茴香 (bājiǎohuíxiāng) (Chinese Mandarin), 大茴香 (dàhuíxiāng) (Chinese Mandarin), stjerneanis [common-gender] (Danish), steranijs [masculine] (Dutch), 八角 (báik-gáe̤k) (Eastern Min Chinese), 八角香 (báik-gáe̤k-hiŏng) (Eastern Min Chinese), stelanizo (Esperanto), tähtianis (Finnish), anis étoilé [masculine] (French), badiane chinoise [feminine] (French), étoile d’anis [feminine] (French), anis étoile [masculine] (French), anís estrelado [masculine] (Galician), Sternanis [masculine] (German), αστεροειδής γλυκάνισος (asteroeidís glykánisos) [masculine] (Greek), चक्र फूल (cakra phūl) [masculine] (Hindi), csillagánizs [singular] (Hungarian), bunga lawang (Indonesian), anice stellato [masculine] (Italian), 八角 (hakkaku) (alt: はっかく) (Japanese), ចាន់ការី (cankaarii) (Khmer), 팔각 (palgak) (Korean), 스타아니스 (seutaaniseu) (Korean), zvaigžņainais anīss [masculine] (Latvian), anīskoks [masculine] (Latvian), bunga lawang (Malay), kopoti whetū (Maori), stjerneanis (Norwegian), badiana [feminine] (Occitan), بادیان (bâdiyân) (Persian), badian właściwy [masculine] (Polish), anis-estrelado [masculine] (Portuguese), estrela-de-anis [feminine] (Portuguese), anason stelat [masculine] (Romanian), badian [masculine] (Romanian), звёздчатый ани́с (zvjózdčatyj anís) [masculine] (Russian), zvezdasti janež [masculine] (Slovene), anís estrellado [masculine] (Spanish), anís estrella [masculine] (Spanish), badián [masculine] (Spanish), badiana [feminine] (Spanish), stjärnanis [common-gender] (Swedish), โป๊ยกั้ก (bpóoy gák) (Thai), ལི་ཤི་མཚོན་འཁོར (li shi mtshon 'khor) (Tibetan), đại hồi (Vietnamese), hồi (Vietnamese), đại hồi hương (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-star_anise-en-noun-sA00fJOr Disambiguation of Spices: 78 22 Disambiguation of Spices and herbs: 85 15 Disambiguation of Magnoliids: 91 9 Categories (other): Eastern Min terms with redundant transliterations, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of Eastern Min terms with redundant transliterations: 91 9 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 93 7 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 92 8 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 91 9 Disambiguation of 'Illicium verum': 100 0 Disambiguation of 'a plant, Illicium verum': 100 0
  2. The star-shaped seed used as a spice. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (the spice): နာနတ်ပွင့် (nanatpwang.) (Burmese), anís estrellat [masculine] (Catalan), anis (Cebuano), sangki (Cebuano), αστεροειδής γλυκάνισος (asteroeidís glykánisos) [masculine] (Greek), csillagánizs [singular] (Hungarian), ចាន់ការី (cankaarii) (Khmer), zvaigžņainais anīss [masculine] (Latvian), kopoti whetū (Maori), anyż gwiaździsty [masculine] (Polish), anyż gwiazdkowy [masculine] (Polish), badian [masculine] (Polish), badianek [masculine] (Polish), badián [masculine] (Slovak), sangke (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-star_anise-en-noun-OMlLoZij Disambiguation of 'the spice': 44 56

Inflected forms

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          "word": "bunga lawang"
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          "word": "팔각"
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          "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
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          "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
          "word": "bunga lawang"
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          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
          "word": "kopoti whetū"
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          "lang": "Persian",
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          "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
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        "uncountable"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "44 56",
          "code": "my",
          "lang": "Burmese",
          "roman": "nanatpwang.",
          "sense": "the spice",
          "word": "နာနတ်ပွင့်"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 56",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "the spice",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "anís estrellat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 56",
          "code": "ceb",
          "lang": "Cebuano",
          "sense": "the spice",
          "word": "anis"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 56",
          "code": "ceb",
          "lang": "Cebuano",
          "sense": "the spice",
          "word": "sangki"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 56",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "asteroeidís glykánisos",
          "sense": "the spice",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "αστεροειδής γλυκάνισος"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 56",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "the spice",
          "tags": [
            "singular"
          ],
          "word": "csillagánizs"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 56",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "cankaarii",
          "sense": "the spice",
          "word": "ចាន់ការី"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 56",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "the spice",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "zvaigžņainais anīss"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 56",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "the spice",
          "word": "kopoti whetū"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 56",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "the spice",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "anyż gwiaździsty"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 56",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "the spice",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "anyż gwiazdkowy"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 56",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "the spice",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "badian"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 56",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "the spice",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "badianek"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 56",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "the spice",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "badián"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 56",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "the spice",
          "word": "sangke"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "star anise"
}
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  "categories": [
    "Eastern Min terms with redundant transliterations",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "en:Magnoliids",
    "en:Spices",
    "en:Spices and herbs"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "taxonomic": "Illicium anisatum",
      "word": "Japanese star anise"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Illicium parviflorum",
      "word": "swamp star anise"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "star anises",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "star anise (countable and uncountable, plural star anises)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A plant, Illicium verum, used primarily for its star-shaped seed which resembles anise in scent and flavor, and which is used as a spice. Valued for its decorative shape as well as its flavor. Also used commercially as a source of shikimic acid for the production of Tamiflu."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Illicium verum",
          "Illicium verum#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "star",
          "star"
        ],
        [
          "anise",
          "anise"
        ],
        [
          "shikimic acid",
          "shikimic acid"
        ],
        [
          "Tamiflu",
          "Tamiflu"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The star-shaped seed used as a spice."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "Illicium verum",
      "word": "Chinese star anise"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Illicium verum",
      "word": "true star anise"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "steranys"
    },
    {
      "code": "ba",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "baźıyan",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "баҙыян"
    },
    {
      "code": "ba",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "ənis",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "әнис"
    },
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "nanatpwang.",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "နာနတ်ပွင့်"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "badiana"
    },
    {
      "code": "ceb",
      "lang": "Cebuano",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "anis"
    },
    {
      "code": "ceb",
      "lang": "Cebuano",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "sangki"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "baat³ gok³",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "八角"
    },
    {
      "code": "cdo",
      "lang": "Eastern Min Chinese",
      "roman": "báik-gáe̤k",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "八角"
    },
    {
      "code": "cdo",
      "lang": "Eastern Min Chinese",
      "roman": "báik-gáe̤k-hiŏng",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "八角香"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "poeh-kak / peh-kak",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "八角"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "peh-kak-hiuⁿ / poeh-kak-hiuⁿ / peh-kak-hioⁿ",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "八角香"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bājiǎo",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "八角"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bājiǎohuíxiāng",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "八角茴香"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dàhuíxiāng",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "大茴香"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "stjerneanis"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "steranijs"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "stelanizo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "tähtianis"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anis étoilé"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "badiane chinoise"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "étoile d’anis"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anis étoile"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anís estrelado"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Sternanis"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "asteroeidís glykánisos",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "αστεροειδής γλυκάνισος"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "cakra phūl",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "चक्र फूल"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ],
      "word": "csillagánizs"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "bunga lawang"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anice stellato"
    },
    {
      "alt": "はっかく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hakkaku",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "八角"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "cankaarii",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "ចាន់ការី"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "palgak",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "팔각"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "seutaaniseu",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "스타아니스"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zvaigžņainais anīss"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anīskoks"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "bunga lawang"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "kopoti whetū"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "stjerneanis"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "badiana"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "bâdiyân",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "بادیان"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "badian właściwy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anis-estrelado"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "estrela-de-anis"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anason stelat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "badian"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zvjózdčatyj anís",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "звёздчатый ани́с"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zvezdasti janež"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anís estrellado"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anís estrella"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "badián"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "badiana"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "stjärnanis"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "bpóoy gák",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "โป๊ยกั้ก"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "li shi mtshon 'khor",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "ལི་ཤི་མཚོན་འཁོར"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "đại hồi"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "hồi"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a plant, Illicium verum",
      "word": "đại hồi hương"
    },
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "nanatpwang.",
      "sense": "the spice",
      "word": "နာနတ်ပွင့်"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "the spice",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anís estrellat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ceb",
      "lang": "Cebuano",
      "sense": "the spice",
      "word": "anis"
    },
    {
      "code": "ceb",
      "lang": "Cebuano",
      "sense": "the spice",
      "word": "sangki"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "asteroeidís glykánisos",
      "sense": "the spice",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "αστεροειδής γλυκάνισος"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the spice",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ],
      "word": "csillagánizs"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "cankaarii",
      "sense": "the spice",
      "word": "ចាន់ការី"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "the spice",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zvaigžņainais anīss"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "the spice",
      "word": "kopoti whetū"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the spice",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anyż gwiaździsty"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the spice",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anyż gwiazdkowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the spice",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "badian"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the spice",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "badianek"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "the spice",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "badián"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "the spice",
      "word": "sangke"
    }
  ],
  "word": "star anise"
}

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