Tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root, source of gingerroot and powdered ginger
English: common ginger, Canton ginger, stem ginger, Zingiber officinale
Less certain link between this word and this sense.
sepedasms
Canton ginger, Zingiber officinale, common ginger, stem ginger
Rare
#142,218 of the corpus · 0.1 per million words · 247 occurrences
From pedas (se-) · less common, #5,720