Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to ginger, or the Zingiberaceæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Of or pertaining to ginger, or to a tribe (
Zingibereæ ) of endogenous plants of the order Scitamineæ. Seescitamineous .
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- adjective
zinziberaceous
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Examples
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Large trees stretch out their arms across the stream, and the steep, earthy banks are clothed with ferns and zingiberaceous plants.
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Large trees stretch out their arms across the stream, and the steep, earthy banks are clothed with ferns and zingiberaceous plants.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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