zingiber

English Thesaurus

1. tropical Asiatic and Polynesian perennial plants: ginger (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	liliopsid genus, monocot genus,
definition	:	genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed (noun.plant)

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

member meronym	:	family zingiberaceae, ginger family, zingiberaceae,
definition	:	a family of tropical monocotyledonous plants of order Musales (noun.plant)