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CANTON GINGER

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Dictionary entry overview: What does Canton ginger mean?

• CANTON GINGER (noun)
The noun CANTON GINGER has 1 sense:

1. tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root; source of gingerroot and powdered ginger

Familiarity information: CANTON GINGER used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CANTON GINGER (noun)

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Meaning:

Tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root; source of gingerroot and powdered ginger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Canton ginger; common ginger; stem ginger; Zingiber officinale

Hypernyms ("Canton ginger" is a kind of...):

ginger (perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems)

Meronyms (parts of "Canton ginger"):

ginger; gingerroot (pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Oriental cookery)

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