ZINGIBER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Tropical Asiatic and Polynesian perennial plants: ginger

Synonyms:

genus Zingiber; Zingiber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Zingiber" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Zingiber"):

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

Holonyms ("Zingiber" is a member of...):

family Zingiberaceae; ginger family; Zingiberaceae (a family of tropical monocotyledonous plants of order Musales)