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ginger family

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Noun1.ginger familyginger family - a family of tropical monocotyledonous plants of order Musales
family Zingiberaceae, Zingiberaceae
liliopsid family, monocot family - family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed
Musales, order Musales - tropical plants
genus Zingiber, Zingiber - tropical Asiatic and Polynesian perennial plants: ginger
Curcuma, genus Curcuma - tropical Asiatic perennial herbs
Alpinia, genus Alpinia, genus Languas, genus Zerumbet - perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes
Aframomum, genus Aframomum - an African genus of plants of the family Zingiberaceae
Elettaria, genus Elettaria - cardamom


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