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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ginger \Gin"ger\, n. [OE. ginger, gingever gingivere OF gengibre gingimbre F. gingembre L. zingiber, zingiberi, fr Gr ?; of Oriental origin; cf Ar & Pers. zenjeb[=i]l, fr Skr. ???gav["e]ra, prop., hornshaped ???ga horn + v["e]ra body.] 1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Zingiber}, of the East and West Indies. The species most known is {Z. officinale}. 2. The hot and spicy rootstock of {Zingiber officinale}, which is much used in cookery and in medicine. {Ginger} {beer or ale}, a mild beer impregnated with ginger. {Ginger cordial}, a liquor made from ginger, raisins, lemon rind, and water, and sometimes whisky or brandy. {Ginger pop}. See {Ginger beer} (above). {Ginger wine}, wine impregnated with ginger. {Wild ginger} (Bot.), an American herb ({Asarum Canadense}) with two reniform leaves and a long, cordlike rootstock which has a strong taste of ginger. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: ginger adj : (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color; "a man with gingery hair and bright blue eyes"; "a ginger kitten" [syn: {gingery}] n 1: perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems 2: dried ground gingerroot [syn: {powdered ginger}] 3: pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Oriental cookery [syn: {gingerroot}] 4: liveliness and energy; "this tonic is guaranteed to give you more pep" [syn: {pep}, {peppiness}] v : add ginger to From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: ginger n. See {saga}. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: Ginger A simple {functional language} from the {University of Warwick} with parallel constructs. (1994-11-02)
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