| 单词 | ginger plant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasginger plant ginger plant n. (a) the plant Zingiber officinale (see sense A. 2), or (in later use) other plant of the genus Zingiber or family Zingiberaceae (see sense A. 3); †(b) English regional tansy, Tanacetum vulgare (formerly used as a substitute for ginger in both in cooking and herbal medicine; cf. gingerbread n. 5b) (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > ginger plants gingerc1400 ginger plant1708 wild ginger?1804 1708 tr. F. Cauche Voy. Madagascar 71 in New Coll. Voy. & Trav. I The Figure of the Ginger Plant [Fr. du gingembre], with its Leaves and Roots, is in Marcgravius's Nat. Hist. of Brasil..represented like the Stem and Leaves of a Cane, whereas that of the East Indies and Madagascar, is as here describ'd. 1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 357 The ginger plant has been cultivated in this country as a stove exotic since..1600. 1880 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Ginger-plant, Tanacetum vulgare. 1889 C. Lumholtz Among Cannibals (1890) 297 If the leaves of the ginger-plant are used, they give the food a peculiar piquant flavour. 1999 Copeia 317/2 Nest mounds were interwoven by plant roots mostly from the ubiquitous ginger plant (Aframomum angustifolium). 2013 J. D. Mauseth Plants & People xiv. 351 Ginger plants for spice grow just like the ornamental gingers or bamboos. < as lemmas |
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