- a reedlike plant, Zingiber officinale, native to South Asia but now cultivated in many tropical countries, having a pungent, spicy rhizome used in cooking and medicine.
- any of various plants related to or similar to Zingiber officinale.
- the rhizome of Zingiber officinale, ground, chopped, etc., and used as a flavoring.
- piquancy; animation: There was plenty of ginger in their performance of the dance.
- a yellowish or reddish brown.
- to treat or flavor with ginger, the spicy rhizome of the Zingiber officinale plant.
- to impart piquancy or spirit to; enliven (usually followed by up): to ginger up a talk with a few jokes.
- flavored or made with ginger, the spicy rhizome of the Zingiber officinale plant.
- any of several zingiberaceous plants of the genus Zingiber, esp Z. officinale of the East Indies, cultivated throughout the tropics for its spicy hot-tasting underground stem
- the underground stem of this plant, which is used fresh or powdered as a flavouring or crystallized as a sweetmeat
- any of certain related plants
- a reddish-brown or yellowish-brown colour
- (as adjective)
- liveliness; vigour
- a person with ginger hair
- to add the spice ginger to (a dish)
