Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun zingiber_officinale

1 sense of zingiber officinale

Sense 1
common ginger, Canton ginger, stem ginger, Zingiber officinale -- (tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root; source of gingerroot and powdered ginger)
       => ginger -- (perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems)