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Definition of ginger

liveliness and energy; "this tonic is guaranteed to give you more pep"
pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Oriental cookery
dried ground gingerroot
perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems
add ginger to in order to add flavor; "ginger the soup"
(used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color; "a man with gingery hair and bright blue eyes"; "a ginger kitten"

Similar Words: pep, peppiness, gingerroot, powdered ginger, gingery

Hyponyms: common ginger, Canton ginger, stem ginger, Zingiber officinale, galangal, Alpinia galanga, lesser galangal, Alpinia officinarum, Alpinia officinalis, red ginger, Alpinia purpurata, shellflower, shall-flower, shell ginger, Alpinia Zerumbet, Alpinia speciosa, Languas speciosa

Substance Meronyms: powdered ginger, ginger ale, ginger pop

Part Meronyms: common ginger, Canton ginger, stem ginger, Zingiber officinale

Member Meronyms: Zingiber, genus Zingiber

Derivational Morphology: gingerroot, powdered ginger

Anagrams: ringer, erring

Language Translations:
Bulgarian: джинджифил		Catalan: gengebre
Danish: ingefær		Dutch: gember
Esperanto: zingibro		Finnish: inkivääri
French: gingembre		Galician: xenxibre
German: Ingwer		Greek: πιπερόρριζα
Italian: zenzero		Japanese: 生姜
Polish: imbir		Slovene: ingver
Spanish: jengibre		Swedish: ingefära
Tagalog: luya		Telugu: అల్లం

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