GALANGAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does galangal mean? 

• GALANGAL (noun)
  The noun GALANGAL has 2 senses:

1. southeastern Asian perennial with aromatic roots

2. European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots

  Familiarity information: GALANGAL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GALANGAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Southeastern Asian perennial with aromatic roots

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Alpinia galanga; galangal

Hypernyms ("galangal" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("galangal" is a member of...):

Alpinia; genus Alpinia; genus Languas; genus Zerumbet (perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cyperus longus; galangal; galingale

Hypernyms ("galangal" is a kind of...):

sedge (grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers)

Holonyms ("galangal" is a member of...):

Cyperus; genus Cyperus (type genus of Cyperaceae; grasslike rhizomatous herbs; cosmopolitan except very cold regions)