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Webster 1913 Edition


Galingale

Gal′in-gale

,
Noun.
[See
Galangal
.]
(Bot.)
A plant of the Sedge family (
Cyperus longus
) having aromatic roots; also, any plant of the same genus.
Chaucer.
Meadow, set with slender
galingale
.
Tennyson.