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noun

Ginger n.

(Bot.) A plant of the genus Zingiber, of the East and West Indies. The species most known is Zingiber officinale.

The hot and spicy rootstock of Zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine.

Ginger ale

(a)

a soft drink flavored with ginger and carbonated.

(a)

See ginger beer, below.

Ginger beer or Ginger ale, a mild beer impregnated with ginger.

Ginger cordial, a liquor made from ginger, raisins, lemon rind, and water, and sometimes whisky or brandy.

Ginger pop. See Ginger ale (above).

Ginger wine, wine impregnated with ginger.

Wild ginger (Bot.), an American herb (Asarum Canadense) with two reniform leaves and a long, cordlike rootstock which has a strong taste of ginger.

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Etymology of 'Ginger'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ginger" Quotes from Famous Books

... memory of Dare-devil Harry Whalley in the Eastern Seas, or of keeping an old man in pocket-money and clothes, with, perhaps, a bill for a few hundred first-class cigars thrown in at the end of the year. He would have to buckle-to, and keep her going hard on a scant allowance of gilt for the ginger-bread scrolls at her stem ...

— End of the Tether • Joseph Conrad

... angry] Well, do you consider it consistent with your duty as the god of wine to make the grapes yield nothing but ginger beer? ...

— The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan - The 14 Gilbert And Sullivan Plays • William Schwenk Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

... the bright sunshine had filled Sultan with ginger, and he was as full of play as a small boy when he wakes up some early winter morning and sees the ground covered with the first snow, and remembers the sled that has lain in ...

— Ted Strong in Montana - With Lariat and Spur • Edward C. Taylor

... standing ginger-beer like a gentleman, happening, as the one that had last passed under the dentist's hands, to be the capitalist of the flying hour. As in all well-regulated families, the usual tariff obtained in ours,—half-a-crown ...

— The Golden Age • Kenneth Grahame

... beautiful simple-hearted girl; rather romantic, and the very reverse of the old maid. Aunt Dorothy is all ginger and vinegar. Niece Juliet, like fine Burgundy, sparkling with life ...

— Mark Hurdlestone - Or, The Two Brothers • Susanna Moodie

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