1. Tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root; source of gingerroot and powdered ginger
   - common ginger, Canton ginger, Zingiber officinale

Derived forms: stem gingers

Type of: ginger

• rough pea
• rough sledding
• rough trade
• rough up
• rough water
• rough-and-ready
• rough-and-tumble
• rough-cut
• rough-dry
• rough-haired
• rough-hew
• rough-leaved aster
• rough-legged hawk
• rough-sand
• rough-skinned newt
• rough-spoken
• rough-stemmed goldenrod
• rough-textured
• roughage
• roughcast
• roughdried
• roughen
• roughened
• roughhewn
• roughhouse