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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ginger \Gin"ger\, noun [OE. ginger, gingever, gingivere, OF. gengibre, gingimbre, F. gingembre, L. zingiber, zingiberi, fr. Gr. ?; of Oriental origin; cf. Ar. & Pers. zenjeb[=i]l, fr. Skr. [,c][.r][.n]gav["e]ra, prop., hornshaped; ???ga horn + v["e]ra body.]
1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Zingiber}, of the East and West Indies. The species most known is {Zingiber officinale}.
2. 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ginger
adjective: (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color; "a man with gingery hair and bright blue eyes"; "a ginger kitten" [syn: {gingery}]
noun
1: perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems
2: dried ground gingerroot [syn: {powdered ginger}]
3: pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Oriental cookery [syn: {gingerroot}]
4: liveliness and energy; "this tonic is guaranteed to give you more pep" [syn: {pep}, {peppiness}]
verb: add ginger to in order to add flavor; "ginger the soup"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "ginger": aggressiveness, bang, bite, briskness, dash, drive, enterprise, fire, get-up-and-go, guts, hotness, initiative, kick, liveliness, nip, nippiness, pep, pepper, pepperiness, piss and vinegar, pizzazz, poop, punch, push, raciness, relish, snap, snappiness, spice, spiciness, spunk, starch, tang, tanginess, thrust, verve, vim, zest, zestfulness, zing, zip
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
ginger n. See {saga}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Ginger A simple {functional language} from the {University of Warwick} with parallel constructs. (1994-11-02)
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