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zingiberaceous

[zin-juh-buh-rey-shuhs]

adjective

belonging to the Zingiberaceae, the ginger family of plants.

Also, zinziberaceous.

Compare ginger family.

Origin:
1840–50; < Neo-Latin Zingiberace(ae) family name (see ginger, -aceae) + -ous

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zingiberaceous (ˌzɪndʒɪbəˈreɪʃəs)

—*adj*
	of, relating to, or belonging to the Zingiberaceae, a family of tropical aromatic plants that typically have fleshy rhizomes and flowers in spikes or clusters: includes ginger and the plants yielding turmeric and cardamom

[C19: via New Latin from zingiberginger]

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