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COMMON GINGER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root; source of gingerroot and powdered gingerplay

Synonyms:

Canton ginger; common ginger; stem ginger; Zingiber officinale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("common ginger" is a kind of...):

ginger (perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems)

Meronyms (parts of "common ginger"):

ginger; gingerroot (pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery)

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