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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[OE.

galingale

, OF.

galingal

garingal

, F.

galanga

(cf. Sp.

galanga

), prob. fr. Ar.

khalanjān

. ]

The pungent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of

Alpinia

(

Alpinia Galanga

and

Alpinia officinarum

) and of the

Kæmpferia Galanga

), – all of the Ginger family.

Noun.

Zedoary, a species of Kaempferia. It has tuberous,thick, oblong,fleshy roots, crowned with oval close-sitting leaves, by pairs,without footstalks.