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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of plants, natural order Scitamineœ, belonging to tropical regions of the old world, and allied to the ginger-plant.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A genus of aromatic plants. It includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise.

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