star anise

English

Star anise.

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.
2. The star-shaped seed used as a spice.

Synonyms

• (Illicium verum): Chinese star anise, true star anise

Derived terms

• Japanese star anise (Illicium anisatum)
• swamp star anise (Illicium parviflorum)

Translations

a plant, Illicium verum

• Afrikaans: steranys
• Bashkir: баҙыян (baźıyan), әнис (ənis)
• Burmese: နာနတ်ပွင့် (nanatpwang.)
• Catalan: badiana f
• Cebuano: anis, sangki
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 八角 (baat³ gok³)

  Eastern Min: 八角 (báik-gáe̤k), 八角香 (báik-gáe̤k-hiŏng)

  Hokkien: 八角 (poeh-kak / peh-kak), 八角香 (peh-kak-hiuⁿ / poeh-kak-hiuⁿ / peh-kak-hioⁿ)

  Mandarin: 八角 (zh) (bājiǎo), 八角茴香 (zh) (bājiǎohuíxiāng), 大茴香 (zh) (dàhuíxiāng)

• Danish: stjerneanis c
• Dutch: steranijs (nl) m
• Esperanto: stelanizo
• Finnish: tähtianis (fi)
• French: anis étoilé (fr) m, badiane chinoise f, étoile d’anis f, anis étoile m
• Galician: anís estrelado (gl) m
• German: Sternanis m
• Greek: αστεροειδής γλυκάνισος m (asteroeidís glykánisos)
• Hindi: चक्र फूल m (cakra phūl)
• Hungarian: csillagánizs (hu) sg
• Indonesian: bunga lawang (id)
• Italian: anice stellato m
• Japanese: 八角 (ja) (はっかく, hakkaku)
• Khmer: ចាន់ការី (cankaarii)
• Korean: 팔각 (ko) (palgak), 스타아니스 (seutaaniseu)
• Latvian: zvaigžņainais anīss m, anīskoks m
• Malay: bunga lawang (ms)
• Maori: kopoti whetū
• Norwegian: stjerneanis
• Occitan: badiana (oc) f
• Persian: بادیان (fa) (bâdiyân)
• Polish: badian właściwy m
• Portuguese: anis-estrelado m, estrela-de-anis f
• Romanian: anason stelat m, badian (ro) m
• Russian: звёздчатый ани́с m (zvjózdčatyj anís)
• Slovene: zvezdasti janež m
• Spanish: anís estrellado (es) m, anís estrella m, badián m, badiana f
• Swedish: stjärnanis c
• Thai: โป๊ยกั้ก (bpóoy gák)
• Tibetan: ལི་ཤི་མཚོན་འཁོར (li shi mtshon 'khor)
• Tày: hoa cáp
• Vietnamese: đại hồi, hồi (vi), đại hồi hương

the spice

• Burmese: နာနတ်ပွင့် (nanatpwang.)
• Catalan: anís estrellat m
• Cebuano: anis, sangki
• Greek: αστεροειδής γλυκάνισος m (asteroeidís glykánisos)
• Hungarian: csillagánizs (hu) sg
• Khmer: ចាន់ការី (cankaarii)
• Latvian: zvaigžņainais anīss m
• Maori: kopoti whetū
• Polish: anyż gwiaździsty m, anyż gwiazdkowy m, badian m, badianek m
• Slovak: badián (sk) m
• Tagalog: sangke

Further reading

• star anise on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Illicium verum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Erastians, arsinates