a widely cultivated tropical plant with pungent aromatic rhizomes that supply most of the ginger used commercially: Zingiber officinale
the dried and ground rhizome of a tropical this plant, used as a spice
the rhizome itself, which has a strong hot taste and is used in cooking, candied as a sweet, or preserved in syrup
a reddish brown or yellowish brown colour
high spirit; vigour
gingery adj
[Middle English via Old French and late Latin from Greek zingiberis, from Pali singivera]