Definition of Gingir
Gin"ger (?), n. [OE. ginger,
gingever, gingivere, OF. gengibre,
gingimbre, F. gingembre, L. zingiber,
zingiberi, fr. Gr. &?;; of Oriental origin; cf. Ar. & Pers.
zenjebīl, fr. Skr. &?;&?;&?;gavëra, prop.,
hornshaped; &?;&?;&?;ga horn + vëra 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Any plant of a genus (Zingiber, especially Zingiber officinale) of tropical Asiatic and Polynesian herbs of a family (Zingiberaceae, the ginger family) with pungent aromatic rhizomes used as a condiment and as a stimulant and acarminative.
- The rhizome of this plant used as a spice either as it is or in dried powdered form.
- (colour) A reddish-brown colour/color.
ginger colour:
- (colloquial; derogatory) A person with reddish-brown hair.
- (used to describe hair) Of a reddish-brown colour.
- flavoured with ginger.
- (Cockney rhyming slang; derogatory) Queer (ie, homosexual) (short for ginger beer, rhyming with queer).
- to treat with care
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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