stem ginger

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   tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root; source of gingerroot and powdered ginger

   Synonymscommon gingerCanton gingerZingiber officinale

   Broaderginger

   Partsginger

Questions about stem ginger

What does stem ginger mean?

stem ginger means "tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root; source of gingerroot and powdered ginger".

What is another word for stem ginger?

Close synonyms include common ginger, Canton ginger, Zingiber officinale. 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 stem ginger a common word?

stem ginger 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.