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ginger noun & adjective1.

A. noun.
The hot spicy rhizome of the plant Zingiber officinale, used in cookery and medicine and candied as a sweet or preserved in syrup. LOE.
The monocotyledonous plant yielding this rhizome, Zingiber officinale (family Zingiberaceae), native to SE Asia. LME.
H. Allen Next year he would..put in indigo, cotton, sugar cane, and ginger.
A fighting-cock with reddish-brown plumage. L18.
A light reddish-yellow colour; the sandy or reddish colour of a person's hair. M19.
J. Masters Red hair, a sort of dull ginger.
fig. Mettle, spirit; stimulation. M19.
G. Santayana This..boy has no ginger in him, no fire.
(Also Ginger.) (A nickname for) a person with red hair. colloq. L19.
Phrases: black ginger unscraped root of ginger. green ginger undried root of ginger, usu. in a preserve. Jamaica ginger: see JAMAICA 1. root ginger: see ROOT noun1. stem ginger: see STEM noun1. white ginger scraped root of ginger. wild ginger: see WILD adjective, noun, & adverb.
b. adjective. Of a light reddish-yellow colour; (of hair) sandy, reddish; (of a person) sandy- or red-haired. E19.
Comb. & special collocations: ginger ale an aerated ginger-flavoured drink; ginger beer (a) ginger ale; spec. an aerated drink made by fermenting sugar, water, and bruised or ground ginger; ginger-beer plant, a mixture of yeast and bacteria to ferment sugar solution in making ginger beer; (b) slang a homosexual man; gingerbeery adjective frothy, lively; ginger group a group within an organization which stimulates or enlivens the main body; ginger lily any of various chiefly Indo-Malayan plants of the genus Hedychium, of the ginger family, grown for their spikes of showy fragrant flowers; ginger-nob slang (a) a red-haired person; (b) a head of ginger hair; ginger-nut (a) = GINGERBREAD nut; (b) a ginger-flavoured biscuit; ginger-pop colloq. ginger beer, ginger ale; ginger-race a root of ginger; ginger-snap a thin brittle ginger-flavoured biscuit; ginger wine a drink made from fermented sugar, water, and bruised ginger.
gingery adjective (a) ginger-coloured, sandy; (b) spiced with or as with ginger: M19.