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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A plant of the ginger family, Zinziber Zerumbet, which is distributed over all the volcanic islands of Polynesia and in India. See also beta.
  • noun The name in Tahiti of another plant of the same family, Amomum Cevuga.

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