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1. (n.) ginger
a reedlike plant, Zingiber officinale, native to SE Asia but now cultivated in most tropical countries, having a pungent spicy rhizome used in cookery and medicine.
2. ginger
any of various related or similar plants.
3. ginger
piquancy; animation.
4. ginger
a reddish brown.
5. (v.t.) ginger
to flavor with ginger.
6. ginger
to enliven (usu. fol. by up):
to ginger up a talk with jokes.
7. (adj.) ginger
flavored or made with ginger.
Etymology: (bef. 1000; < OE gingiber < L gingiber, for zingiberi < Gk zingíberis&indirdesc; Indo-Aryan (cf. Pali si&ndot;givēra-) < Dravidian)
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| Definition of 'Ginger' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) ginger
perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems
2. (noun) ginger, powdered ginger
dried ground gingerroot
3. (noun) ginger, gingerroot
pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery
4. (adj) pep, peppiness, ginger
liveliness and energy
"this tonic is guaranteed to give you more pep"
5. (verb) ginger, gingery
(used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color
"a man with gingery hair and bright blue eyes"; "a ginger kitten"
6. (verb) ginger
add ginger to in order to add flavor
"ginger the soup"
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1. (noun) ginger
a root used to give flavor to food
chicken with ginger and sesame
2. (adjective) ginger
(of hair) reddish-orange in color
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| Definition of 'Ginger' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Ginger
a plant of the genus Zingiber, of the East and West Indies. The species most known is Z. officinale
2. (noun) Ginger
the hot and spicy rootstock of Zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. Ginger
See saga.
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| Definition of 'Ginger' |
U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. Ginger
Deciduous plant rich in volatile oil (OILS, VOLATILE). It is used as a flavoring agent and has many other uses both internally and topically.
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Sense: a hot-tasting root which is used as a spice.
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 Afrikaans: gemmer |
 Arabic: زَنْجَبيل |
 Bulgarian: джинджифил |
 Brazilian: gengibre |
 Czech: zázvor |
 German: der Ingwer |
 Danish: ingefær |
 Greek: πιπερόριζα |
 Spanish: jengibre |
 Estonian: ingver |
 Farsi: ریشه زنجبیل |
 Finnish: inkivääri |
 French: gingembre |
 Hebrew: זנגביל |
 Hindi: अदरक |
 Croatian: đumbir |
 Hungarian: gyömbér |
 Indonesian: jahe |
 Icelandic: engifer |
 Italian: zenzero |
 Japanese: しょうが |
 Korean: 생강 |
 Lithuanian: imbieras |
 Latvian: ingvers |
 Malay: halia |
 Dutch: gember |
 Norwegian: ingefær |
 Polish: imbir |
 Persian: ریشه زنجبیل |
 Pashto: د زنجفیل ریښه |
 Portuguese: gengibre |
 Romanian: ghimbir |
 Russian: имбирь |
 Slovak: zázvor |
 Slovenian: ingver |
 Serbian: đumbir |
 Swedish: ingefära |
 Thai: ขิง |
 Turkish: zencefil |
 Taiwanese: 生薑 |
 Ukrainian: імбир |
 Urdu: ادرک |
 Vietnamese: gừng |
 Chinese: 生姜 |
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