ginger family

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   a family of tropical monocotyledonous plants of order Musales

   SynonymsZingiberaceaefamily Zingiberaceae

   Broadermonocot family

   Part ofMusales

Questions about ginger family

What does ginger family mean?

ginger family means "a family of tropical monocotyledonous plants of order Musales".

What is another word for ginger family?

Close synonyms include Zingiberaceae, family Zingiberaceae. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ginger family a common word?

ginger family is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.