zingiber

Questions about zingiber

What does zingiber mean?

zingiber means "tropical Asiatic and Polynesian perennial plants: ginger".

How many syllables are in zingiber?

zingiber has 3 syllables and divides as zin-gi-ber under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for zingiber?

Close synonyms include genus Zingiber. 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 zingiber a common word?

zingiber 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.