NOUN
- small tree of China and Vietnam bearing anise-scented star-shaped fruit used in food and medicinally as a carminative
How To Use Illicium verum In A Sentence
- Most of the oil of commerce, however, of which anethol is also the chief constituent, comes from _Illicium verum_ (order _Magnoliaceae_, sub-order Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1