Noun: anise
| Singular | anise |
| Plural | anises |
Sample Sentences
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A concoction consisting of saffron, orange blossoms, dried dates, anise, wild carrots, and egg yolk, boiled in clear water into which honey and the blood of two freshly killed doves have been poured, is recommended by Arabs as a sexual inducement. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 212:]
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[…] of the butcherbirds which were perched on the electric wires skirting the road must be nesting birds, and that in the absence of trees or brush they must be nesting in some of the weeds along the highway, mostly anise (Foeniculum vulgare). [1934, The Gull (Golden Gate Audubon Society), volumes 16-29, page 25]
Nouns inflected like anise
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Egyptian jnstbor.
3. Ancient Greek ἄνῑσον (ánīson)bor.
4. Latin anīsumder.
5. Old French anisbor.
6. Middle English anys
7. English anise
8. From Middle English anys, borrowed from Old French anis, from Latin anīsum, from Ancient Greek ἄνισον (ánison), from Egyptian jnst. See: Middle English Nouns '
anys', Latin Nouns '
anīsum', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἄνισον'.