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WILD GINGER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Low-growing perennial herb with pungent gingery leaves and rhizomes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wild ginger" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wild ginger"):
Asarum canadense; black snakeroot; Canada ginger (deciduous low-growing perennial of Canada and eastern and central United States)
Asarum virginicum; heart-leaf; heartleaf (evergreen low-growing perennial having mottled green and silvery-grey heart-shaped pungent leaves; Virginia to South Carolina)
asarabacca; Asarum europaeum (thick creeping evergreen herb of western Europe)
Holonyms ("wild ginger" is a member of...):
Asarum; genus Asarum (wild ginger)
