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ginger — /jin jeuhr/, n. 1. a reedlike plant, Zingiber officinale, native to the East Indies but now cultivated in most tropical countries, having a pungent, spicy rhizome used in cookery and medicine. Cf. ginger family. 2. any of various related or… … Universalium
ginger — [OE] Few foodstuffs can have been as exhaustively etymologized as ginger – Professor Alan Ross, for instance, begetter of the U/non U distinction, wrote an entire 74 page monograph on the history of the word in 1952. And deservedly so, for its… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
ginger — [OE] Few foodstuffs can have been as exhaustively etymologized as ginger – Professor Alan Ross, for instance, begetter of the U/non U distinction, wrote an entire 74 page monograph on the history of the word in 1952. And deservedly so, for its… … Word origins
ginger — [jin′jər] adj. [ME gingere, gingivere < OE gingifer & OFr gingivre, both < ML gingiber < L zingiber < Gr zingiberi < Pali siṅgivera] designating a family (Zingiberaceae, order Zingiberales) of aromatic, monocotyledonous tropical… … English World dictionary
