English word senses marked with lifeform category "Ginger family plants"

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Total 59 word senses

• Chinese keys (Noun) fingerroot, Boesenbergia rotunda.
• Guinea pepper (Noun) Any of several not closely related black pepper-like spices from West Africa.; Aframomum melegueta (grains of paradise) from the ginger family (Zingiberaceae).
• Indian saffron (Noun) Synonym of turmeric
• Jamaica ginger (Noun) A variety of ginger prepared in Jamaica from the best roots, which are deprived of their epidermis and dried separately.
• Japanese ginger (Noun) Zingiber mioga, native to east Asia.
• amomum (Noun) Any of several spices of genus Amomum, family Zingiberaceae, including cardamom.
• aromatic ginger (Noun) cutcherry (Kaempferia galanga)
• black cardamom (Noun) An Asiatic plant of species Amomum subulatum, whose pods are used as a spice in Indian cuisine.
• blue ginger (Noun) Alpinia spp.
• butterfly ginger (Noun) white ginger (Hedychium coronarium)
• butterfly lily (Noun) A mariposa lily (Calochortus).
• butterfly lily (Noun) white ginger (Hedychium coronarium).
• camia (Noun) Hedychium coronarium; a perennial flowering plant from the ginger family Zingiberaceae.
• cardamom (Noun) Synonym of grains of paradise, the seeds or seed capsules of Aframomum melegueta, of East Africa.
• cassumunar (Noun) A type of pungent, bitter, aromatic ginger, Zingiber montanum, now considered a synonym of Zingiber cassumunar, native to Southeast Asia and the Malayan peninsula.
• cutcherry (Noun) An administration office in India.
• elaichi (Noun) cardamom
• fingerroot (Noun) Boesenbergia rotunda, a plant related to ginger, with finger-like roots used as a spice.
• galangal (Noun) Any of several east Asian plants of genera Alpinia and Kaempferia in the ginger family, used as a spice, but principally Alpinia galanga.
• galingale (Noun) One of several species of Cyperus sedges with aromatic rhizomes.
• ginger (Noun) The pungent aromatic rhizome of a tropical Asian herb, Zingiber officinale, used as a spice and as a stimulant and acarminative.
• ginger (Noun) Other species belonging to the same family, Zingiberaceae, especially those of the genus Zingiber
• ginger (Noun) Ginger ale, or can or bottle of such (especially if dry).
• ginger (Noun) Any fizzy soft drink, or can or bottle of such; pop; soda.
• ginger (Verb) To enliven, to spice (up).
• ginger root (Noun) Ginger, the underground stem, or rhizome, of the plant Zingiber officinale.
• gingerol (Noun) Any of several isomeric compounds responsible for the heat of ginger
• grain of paradise (Noun) A seed of Aframomum melegueta.
• grains of paradise (Noun) The seeds or seed capsules of Aframomum melegueta, used as a medicine and spice, especially as a substitute for black pepper and in flavoring alcoholic beverages.
• greater galangal (Noun) galangal (Alpinia galanga)
• green cardamom (Noun) The plant Elettaria cardamomum.
• guinea grains (Noun) Synonym of grains of paradise.
• jake (Noun) Jamaica ginger.
• kaempferia (Noun) Any of the genus Kaempferia of plants in the ginger family, native to Asia.
• kahili ginger (Noun) A plant related to ginger, Hedychium gardnerianum, which is native to the Himalayas but widely grown elsewhere in warm climates due to its showy flowers, and which can be seriously invasive away from its native range.
• kencur (Noun) cutcherry, Kaempferia galanga
• kentjur (Noun) Any of a number of flowering plants in the Zingiberaceae family, native to Asia, and having rhizomes used as spices.
• lesser galangal (Noun) A plant (Alpinia officinarum) related to galangal (Alpinia galanga), with similar uses and flavor.
• malagueta (Noun) Synonym of grains of paradise, the seeds or seed capsules of the West African Aframomum melegueta; the plant itself.
• mango ginger (Noun) Curcuma amada, a plant related to turmeric, but with a mango-like flavor and aroma.
• myoga (Noun) A Japanese type of ginger, Zingiber mioga, of which only the shoots and flower buds are used in cooking.
• pinecone ginger (Noun) Any of several species of ginger with pinecone-like flower heads, but especially the shampoo ginger (Zingiber zerumbet).
• queen of spices (Noun) Cardamom.
• red ginger (Noun) A Malaysian plant related to ginger, if species Alpinia purpurata, grown for its showy red flower spikes.
• resurrection lily (Noun) Lycoris squamigera (surprise lily).
• shampoo ginger (Noun) An Asian and Polynesian plant related to ginger, Zingiber zerumbet, whose inflorescence contains a substance used as a shampoo.
• shell ginger (Noun) An East Asian plant related to ginger, Alpinia zerumbet, grown for its showy flowers, which are shell-pink on the outside and intensely orange and red on the inside.
• shogaol (Noun) A pungent constituent of ginger, similar in chemical structure to gingerol.
• torch ginger (Noun) A Southeast Asian tropical plant related to ginger, of species Etlingera elatior (syn. Phaeomeria magnifica), with pink buds used as a seasoning and spectacular red flowers.
• turmeric (Noun) An Indian plant (Curcuma longa), with aromatic rhizomes, part of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae).
• white ginger (Noun) A decorative herb of India (Hedychium coronarium).
• white turmeric (Noun) zedoary (Curcuma zedoaria), an herb with edible rhizomes.
• wild ginger (Noun) Any of the many plants similar to culinary ginger (Zingiber officinale) in appearance or aroma.; in family Zingiberaceae, especially:; Hedychium gardnerianum (kahili ginger, ginger lily)
• wild turmeric (Noun) A species of turmeric, Curcuma aromatica.
• zedoary (Noun) Curcuma zedoaria, a perennial herb native to India and Indonesia.
• zerumbet (Noun) Zingiber zerumbet, a Javanese plant resembling ginger.
• zingerone (Noun) A crystalline solid organic compound that gives ginger its pungent taste.
• zingiberene (Noun) A monocyclic sesquiterpene, the predominant constituent of the oil of ginger.
• zinziberaceous (Adjective) Belonging to or resembling the ginger family, the Zingiberaceae.

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