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Definition of Ginger family
1. Noun. A family of tropical monocotyledonous plants of order Musales.
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Family, Monocot Family
Group relationships: Musales, Order Musales
Member holonyms: Genus Zingiber, Zingiber, Curcuma, Genus Curcuma, Alpinia, Genus Alpinia, Genus Languas, Genus Zerumbet, Aframomum, Genus Aframomum, Elettaria, Genus Elettaria
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ginger Family
Literary usage of Ginger family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scientific and Applied Pharmacognosy: Intended for the Use of Students in by Henry Kraemer (1915)
"... ;E, OR ginger family. Perennial herbs characterized by long or tuberous rhizomes
and strongly thickened roots. They are indigenous to the tropics V FIG. ..."
2. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1906)
"Of these families the ginger family is the largest, containing more than three
hundred species.. In this family is found the ginger-plant (Zingiber ..."
3. Sri Lanka by Elke Frey, Gerhard Lemmer, Jayanthi Namasivayam (2001)
"The original forests of Sri Lanka are therefore an ideal habitat; the plant,
which actually belongs to the ginger family, needs plenty of shade and grows in ..."
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