| ginger | 1. <botany> A plant of the genus Zingiber, of the East and West Indies. The species most known is Z. Officinale. 2. The hot and spicy rootstock of Zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine. Ginger beer or ale, a mild beer impregnated with ginger. Ginger cordial, a liquor made from ginger, raisins, lemon rind, and water, and sometimes whisky or brandy. Ginger pop. See Ginger beer (above). Ginger wine, wine impregnated with ginger. <botany> Wild ginger, an American herb (Asarum Canadense) with two reniform leaves and a long, cordlike rootstock which has a strong taste of ginger. Origin: OE. Ginger, gingever, gingivere, OF. Gengibre, gingimbre, F. Gingembre, L. Zingiber, zingiberi, fr. Gr.; of Oriental origin; cf. Ar. & Pers. Zenjebil, fr. Skr. Gavera, prop, hornshaped; ga horn + vera body. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| ginger oleoresin | A carminative, stimulant, and flavoring agent. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ginger paralysis | Neuropathy produced by drinking synthetic Jamaican ginger (or "jake" in the vernacular) containing triorthocresylphosphate. Synonym: ginger paralysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gingerbread | A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. Gingerbread that was full fine. <botany> " Gingerbread tree, the doom palm; so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm. Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Chinese ginger | The pungent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of Alpinia (A. Galanga and A. Officinarum) and of the Kaempferia Galanga), all of the Ginger family. Origin: OE. Galingale, OF. Galingal, garingal, F. Galanga (cf. Sp. Galanga), prob. Fr. Ar. Khalanjn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| wild ginger | An aromatic stimulant and diaphoretic. Synonym: Canada snakeroot, Indian ginger, wild ginger. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sea ginger | <zoology> A hydroid coral of the genus Millepora, especially M. Alcicornis, of the West Indies and Florida. So called because it stings the tongue like ginger. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Indian ginger | An aromatic stimulant and diaphoretic. Synonym: Canada snakeroot, Indian ginger, wild ginger. (05 Mar 2000) |