Definitions of common ginger
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tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root; source of gingerroot and powdered ginger
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synonyms:
Canton ginger, Zingiber officinale, stem ginger
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type of:
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ginger
perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems
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ginger
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