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Definition of Common ginger
1. Noun. Tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root; source of gingerroot and powdered ginger.
Terms within: Ginger, Gingerroot
Generic synonyms: Ginger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Ginger
Literary usage of Common ginger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Godey's Lady's Book Receipts and Household Hints by Sarah Annie Frost (1870)
"common ginger BEER.—The common drink sold in the streets is made with raw sugar
or molasses, three-quarters of a pound to a gallon of water, ..."
2. The Practice of medicine on Thomsonian principles ... and a materia medica by John W. Comfort (1859)
"The common ginger of the shops is obtained almost exclusively from Calcutta. ...
The common ginger, as sold by storekeepers and apothecaries, ..."
3. A Treatise on the Art of Boiling Sugar, Crystallizing, Lozenge-making by Henry Weatherley (1865)
"common ginger Lozenges. Work into the same mixture of gum and sugar one pound of
the fine powdered ginger, half ounce of the essence of lemon. ..."
4. Indian Industries by A. G. F. Eliot James (1880)
"The Z. officinale, the narrow-leaved or common ginger, seems to have been indigenous
in the ... The common ginger has smooth lanceolate sub-sessile leaves, ..."
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