[
US
/ˈænəˌsid/
]
[ UK /ˈænɪsˌiːd/ ]
[ UK /ˈænɪsˌiːd/ ]
NOUN
- liquorice-flavored seeds, used medicinally and in cooking and liquors
How To Use aniseed In A Sentence
- All the family are highly aromatic; fennel, like many others in this family, has an aniseed-like smell.
- The alternative of drag-racing, where hounds chase a sack of aniseed instead of a fox, is encouraged by these activists.
- The state makes almost a quarter of each year's wine production into brandy and the aniseed-flavoured spirit raki (like arak) which, drunk with water, is the Turks' favoured alcoholic drink.
- Concentrated, full, rich and velvety, this nicely structured, complex red has cherry, cloves, vanilla, pepper and aniseed in abundance.
- Smooth and very drinkable, this delivers subtle notes of aniseed, liquorice, spice and lemon peel.
- A friend of mine recntly made one of these, but with some kind of aniseed liqueur? in it. Ricotta Cheesecake | Baking Bites
- Small cups of freshly made Turkish-style coffee are the national drink, as are ouzo - the aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink - and retsina, the resinated wine, which are kept mostly for the evening and always accompanied by food.
- When not in use for bullfights also, the Plaza is a pleasant square with pavement cafes where many people enjoy the locally produced drink - aniseed aperitif.
- Sweet, slightly hot and absurdly sticky they will fill the kitchen with that warm, Christmassy aniseed smell you so often encounter in Chinese restaurants.
- There was a strong smell of aniseed in the air - pastis was the apéritif de rigueur. MOONDROP TO MURDER