ginger
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Noun (4)
- perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stemsType of herb, herbaceous plantKinds lesser galangal, common ginger, galangal, shellflower, red gingerMember of Zingiber, genus ZingiberMade of gingerol
- dried ground gingerrootSynonyms: powdered gingerType of spiceMade of gingerroot
- pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookerySynonyms: gingerrootType of flavorer, flavourerPart of common ginger, Canton gingerSubstance of powdered ginger, ginger ale
- liveliness and energy“this tonic is guaranteed to give you more pep”Synonyms: peppeppinessType of liveliness, life
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Translations
Noun plant
- Spanish
- jengibre
- French
- gingembre
- German
- Ingwer
- Italian
- zenzero
- Portuguese
- gengibre
- Turkish
- zencefil
- Russian
- имби́рь imbírʹ
- Arabic
- زَنْجَبِيل zanjabīl
- Chinese
- 姜 jiāng
- Japanese
- 生姜 shōga
33 more languages
- Dutch
- gember
- Polish
- imbir
- Swedish
- ingefära
- Greek
- πιπερόριζα piperóriza
- Korean
- 생강 saenggang
- Indonesian
- jahe
- Vietnamese
- gừng
- Hungarian
- gyömbér
- Portuguese (PT)
- gengibre
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 薑 jiāng
- Albanian
- xhenxhefil
- Catalan
- gingebre
- Czech
- zázvor
- Danish
- ingefær
- Esperanto
- zingibro
- Estonian
- ingver
- Finnish
- inkivääri
- Georgian
- ჯანჯაფილი ǯanǯapili
- Hebrew
- זַנְגְּבִיל zangvíl
- Icelandic
- engifer
- Kurdish
- zencebîl
- Latvian
- ingvers
- Lithuanian
- imbieras
- Malagasy
- sakamalao
- Norwegian
- ingefær
- Romanian
- ghimber
- Scottish Gaelic
- dinnsear
- Serbo-Croatian
- đumbir
- Slovak
- ďumbier
- Slovenian
- ingver
- Swahili
- tangawizi
- Welsh
- sinsir
- Yiddish
- אינגבער ingber
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. ginger, gingever, gingivere, OF. gengibre, gingimbre, F. gingembre, L. zingiber, zingiberi, fr. Gr. …; of Oriental origin; cf. Ar. & Pers. zenjebīl, fr. Skr. çṛṅgavëra, prop., hornshaped; …ga horn + vëra body.
1. Botany A plant of the genus Zingiber, of the East and West Indies. The species most known is Zingiber officinale.
2. The hot and spicy rootstock of Zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine.
Ginger ale (a) a soft drink flavored with ginger and carbonated. (a) See ginger beer, below. — Ginger beer or Ginger ale, a mild beer impregnated with ginger. — Ginger cordial, a liquor made from ginger, raisins, lemon rind, and water, and sometimes whisky or brandy. — Ginger pop. See Ginger ale (above). — Ginger wine, wine impregnated with ginger. — Wild ginger Botany, an American herb (Asarum Canadense) with two reniform leaves and a long, cordlike rootstock which has a strong taste of ginger.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
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