GENUS ZINGIBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Zingiber mean? 

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

1. tropical Asiatic and Polynesian perennial plants: ginger

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS ZINGIBER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical Asiatic and Polynesian perennial plants: ginger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Zingiber; Zingiber

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

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "genus Zingiber"):

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

Holonyms ("genus Zingiber" is a member of...):

family Zingiberaceae; ginger family; Zingiberaceae (a family of tropical monocotyledonous plants of order Musales)