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FIVE SPICE POWDER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does five spice powder mean?
• FIVE SPICE POWDER (noun)
The noun FIVE SPICE POWDER has 1 sense:
1. Chinese seasoning made by grinding star anise and fennel and pepper and cloves and cinnamon
Familiarity information: FIVE SPICE POWDER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chinese seasoning made by grinding star anise and fennel and pepper and cloves and cinnamon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("five spice powder" is a kind of...):
spice (any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food)
Meronyms (substance of "five spice powder"):
Chinese anise; star anise; star aniseed (anise-scented star-shaped fruit or seed used in Asian cooking and medicine)
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