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Definition: Wild Ginger |
Wild GingerNoun1. Low-growing perennial herb with pungent gingery leaves and rhizomes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Wild Ginger |
| English words defined with "wild ginger": Aristolochiaceae, Asarum, Asarum shuttleworthii ♦ birthwort family ♦ family Aristolochiaceae ♦ genus Asarum ♦ heartleaf. (references) |
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| Asarum canadense L. |
Wild ginger refers to an herbaceous plant, Asarum canadense, which is native to the forests of eastern North America. It is found from the Great Plains east to the Atlantic Coast, and from southeastern Canada south to approximately the fall line in the southeastern United States.
The plant is called wild ginger because the rhizome tastes and smells similar to that of ginger root, but the two are not particularly related. The root can be used as a spice, but is a potent diuretic, or urinary stimulant. ""Asarum canadense"" contains the chemical aristolochic acid, which is carcinogenic in rats. The Aristolochiaceae family also contains the Aristolochia genus. Aristolochia is a human carcinogen.
Wild ginger favors moist, shaded sites with humus-rich soil. The deciduous, heart-shaped leaves are opposite, and borne from the rhizome which lies just under the soil surface. Two leaves emerge each year from the growing tip. The curious jug-shaped flowers, which give the plant an alternate name, "little jug", are borne singly in Spring between the leaf bases.
Wild ginger can easily be grown in a shade garden, and makes an attractive groundcover.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wild ginger."
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 | Wild Ginger (Asarum caudatum) at Upper Trail Creek. Credit: Terry Tuttle. |  | Close up with blossom of the Wild Ginger (Asarum caudatum) at Upper Trail Creek. Credit: Terry Tuttle. |
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| Expression | Frequency per Day |
wild ginger | 86 |
wild ginger seattle | 47 |
wild ginger restaurant | 24 |
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| Language | Translations for "wild ginger"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Indonesian | temu (come together). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ildway ingergay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-g-i-i-l-n-r-w" | |
-1 letter: regilding, ridgeling, wildering. | |
-2 letters: girdling, ridgling, wielding, wigglier, wriggled. | |
-3 letters: dingier, dirling, eliding, gelding, gilding, gingeli, girding, gliding, griding, lingier, niggled, niggler, redwing, ridging, wedging, welding, wergild, wiggier, wiggled, wiggler, wilding, windier, wingier, wriggle, wringed. | |
-4 letters: dewing, dieing, digger, dinger, dingle, edging, engild, engird, gieing, gilder, ginger, girdle, girlie, girned, glider, idling, inlier, leggin. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 69 6C 64 47 69 6E 67 65 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01101001 01101100 01100100 00100000 01000111 01101001 01101110 01100111 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W i l d   G i n g e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0069 006C 0064 0047 0069 006E 0067 0065 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)577578702417580737184 |
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