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    STEM GINGER

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root; source of gingerroot and powdered gingerplay

    Synonyms:

    Canton ginger; common ginger; stem ginger; Zingiber officinale

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("stem ginger" is a kind of...):

    ginger (perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems)

    Meronyms (parts of "stem ginger"):

    ginger; gingerroot (pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery)

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