ZINGIBER OFFICINALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Zingiber officinale mean? 

• ZINGIBER OFFICINALE (noun)
  The noun ZINGIBER OFFICINALE has 1 sense:

1. tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root; source of gingerroot and powdered ginger

  Familiarity information: ZINGIBER OFFICINALE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZINGIBER OFFICINALE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root; source of gingerroot and powdered ginger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Canton ginger; common ginger; stem ginger; Zingiber officinale

Hypernyms ("Zingiber officinale" is a kind of...):

ginger (perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems)

Meronyms (parts of "Zingiber officinale"):

ginger; gingerroot (pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery)

 Context examples 

The essential oil of Zingiber officinale.

(Ginger Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

An extract of the rhizome of the perennial plant Zingiber officinale with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Ginger Extract, NCI Thesaurus)

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles ginger, the rhizome of the perennial plant Zingiber officinale.

(Ginger Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)

A fresh, dried or processed form of the rhizome of the Asian perennial plant Zingiber officinale (ginger) with potential anti-emetic activity.

(Ginger, NCI Thesaurus)