ZINGIBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Zingiber mean? 

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

1. tropical Asiatic and Polynesian perennial plants: ginger

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZINGIBER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical Asiatic and Polynesian perennial plants: ginger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Zingiber; Zingiber

Hypernyms ("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 "Zingiber"):

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

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

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

 Context examples 

The essential oil of Zingiber officinale.

(Ginger Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

The scientific name is Zingiber officianale.

(Ginger, NCI Dictionary)

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)