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CANTON GINGER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root; source of gingerroot and powdered ginger
Synonyms:
Canton ginger; common ginger; stem ginger; Zingiber officinale
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Canton ginger" is a kind of...):
ginger (perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems)
Meronyms (parts of "Canton ginger"):
ginger; gingerroot (pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery)
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