GINGER FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ginger family mean? 

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

1. a family of tropical monocotyledonous plants of order Musales

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GINGER FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of tropical monocotyledonous plants of order Musales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Zingiberaceae; ginger family; Zingiberaceae

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

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

Meronyms (members of "ginger family"):

genus Zingiber; Zingiber (tropical Asiatic and Polynesian perennial plants: ginger)

Curcuma; genus Curcuma (tropical Asiatic perennial herbs)

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

Aframomum; genus Aframomum (an African genus of plants of the family Zingiberaceae)

Elettaria; genus Elettaria (cardamom)

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

Musales; order Musales (tropical plants)

 Context examples 

An East Indian plant that is a member of the ginger family and is used as a spice and food color.

(Curcuma longa, NCI Dictionary)