common ginger

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common ginger - tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root; source of gingerroot and powdered gingerCanton ginger, stem ginger, Zingiber officinalegingerroot, ginger - pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookeryginger - perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems