Usually means: Spice, star-shaped, licorice flavor.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word star anise:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. star anise: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. star anise: Merriam-Webster
  3. star anise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. star anise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. star anise: Collins English Dictionary
  6. star anise: Vocabulary.com
  7. star anise: Wordnik
  8. star anise: Wiktionary
  9. star anise: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. star anise: Dictionary.com
  11. Star Anise, Star anise (disambiguation), Star anise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. star anise: Rhymezone
  13. star anise: FreeDictionary.org
  14. star anise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. star anise: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. star anise: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. Epicurus.com Food Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Encyclopedia of Spices (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. star anise: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. star anise: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (star anise)

noun:  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.
noun:  The star-shaped seed used as a spice.

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