stem ginger

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

hypernym	:	ginger,
definition	:	perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems (noun.plant)

part holonym	:	ginger, gingerroot,
definition	:	pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery (noun.food)