common ginger

Questions about common ginger

What is another word for common ginger?

It depends which common ginger you mean. In the sense “tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root; source of gingerroot and powdered ginger”, the synonyms are Canton ginger, stem ginger, Zingiber officinale. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of common ginger?

WordNet records no antonym for common ginger. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for common ginger come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of common ginger

• Full entry for common gingerAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for common gingerWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.