WILD GINGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wild ginger mean? 

• WILD GINGER (noun)
  The noun WILD GINGER has 1 sense:

1. low-growing perennial herb with pungent gingery leaves and rhizomes

  Familiarity information: WILD GINGER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILD GINGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Low-growing perennial herb with pungent gingery leaves and rhizomes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("wild ginger" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wild ginger"):

Asarum canadense; black snakeroot; Canada ginger (deciduous low-growing perennial of Canada and eastern and central United States)

Asarum virginicum; heart-leaf; heartleaf (evergreen low-growing perennial having mottled green and silvery-grey heart-shaped pungent leaves; Virginia to South Carolina)

asarabacca; Asarum europaeum (thick creeping evergreen herb of western Europe)

Holonyms ("wild ginger" is a member of...):

Asarum; genus Asarum (wild ginger)