NOUN | plant | common ginger, Canton ginger, stem ginger, Zingiber officinale | tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root |
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Meaning | Tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root; source of gingerroot and powdered ginger. | |
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Synonyms | Canton ginger, stem ginger, Zingiber officinale | |
Parts | ginger, gingerroot | pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant |
Broader | ginger | perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems |
Catalan | Zingiber officinale |
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