anise-scented star-shaped fruit or seed used in Asian cooking and medicine पर्याय: Chinese anise, star aniseed,
small shrubby tree of Japan and Taiwan; flowers are not fragrant पर्याय: Illicium anisatum,
small tree of China and Vietnam bearing anise-scented star-shaped fruit used in food and medicinally as a carminative पर्याय: Chinese anise, Illicium verum,