Usually means: Perennial herb with aromatic rhizomes.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word wild ginger:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. wild ginger: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wild ginger: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wild ginger: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wild ginger: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wild ginger: Vocabulary.com
  6. wild ginger: Wordnik
  7. wild ginger: Wiktionary
  8. wild ginger: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. wild ginger: Dictionary.com
  10. Wild ginger: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. wild ginger: Rhymezone
  12. wild ginger: Free Dictionary
  13. wild ginger: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. wild ginger: Dictionary/thesaurus

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wild Ginger: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  2. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

(Note: See wild_gingers as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (wild ginger)

noun:  Any of the many plants similar to culinary ginger (Zingiber officinale) in appearance or aroma.
noun:  in family Zingiberaceae, especially:
noun:  Any of the Alpinia species (shell gingers), especially Alpinia caerulea.
noun:  Curcuma australasica (native turmeric)
noun:  Hedychium gardnerianum (kahili ginger, ginger lily)
noun:  Siphonochilus aethiopicus (African ginger)
noun:  Any of the numerous Zingiber species
noun:  Renealmia aromatica (rat plantain)
noun:  Any of several species of Asarum, especially Asarum caudatum (British Columbia wildginger), Asarum canadense, and Asarum sieboldi.

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