| NOUN | plant | stem ginger, common ginger, Canton 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 | common ginger, Canton 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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