<scientific LatinZingiberaceae (1812 or earlier, 1820 as Zinziberaceae; <Zingiber, Zinziber, genus name (see zingibern.) + ‑aceae: see ‑aceoussuffix) + ‑oussuffix…
<scientific LatinZingiberaceae (1812 or earlier, 1820 as Zinziberaceae; <Zingiber, Zinziber, genus name (see zingibern.) + ‑aceae: see ‑aceoussuffix) + ‑oussuffix.
Notes
Compare Frenchzingibéracées (1808 or earlier). The form zinziberaceous was listed in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1864), but is now disused (see α forms).
Meaning & use
Botany.
1821–
Of or relating to the family Zingiberaceae of monocotyledonous herbaceous plants found in tropical regions, including ginger, galangal, turmeric, and cardamom.
In quot. 1821: resembling (that of) a plant of this family.
α forms
1821
Corallorhiza... Herb light brown, leafless; root zinziberaceous, fleshy.
S. F. Gray, Natural Arrangement of British Plantsvol. II. 215
1913
A zinziberaceous plant from the eastern Tropics, whose root furnishes the galingale used by the natives for indigestion.
Seeds & Plants Imported (U.S. Department of Agric., Bull. No. 282) 89
1953
The hearth proper consists of layers of leaves (of the banana or of zinziberaceous plants) covered with sand or clay.
Philippine Journal Sciencevol. 82 87
β forms
1841
The leaves of both this and the Zingiberaceous order are plaited into baskets by the Indians.
J. Lindley, Elements of Botany (ed. 4) 177
1921
A perennial zingiberaceous herb attaining a height of 3 m.
H. W. Youngken, Text Book Pharmacognosyii. 106
2004
The newly discovered Beicegel Creek site..contains a plant assemblage..including..clavate seeds of probable zingiberaceous affinity.
International Journal Plant Sciencevol. 165 1136/1
Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛtl/ but /ˈpɛtl̩i/.
Vowels
iːfleece
ihappy
ɪkit
ɛdress
atrap, bath
ɑːstart, palm, bath
ɒlot
ɔːthought, force
ʌstrut
ʊfoot
uːgoose
əletter
əːnurse
ɪənear
ɛːsquare
ʊəcure
eɪface
ʌɪpride
aʊmouth
əʊgoat
ɔɪvoice
ãgratin
ɒ̃salon
ᵻ(/ɪ/-/ə/)
ᵿ(/ʊ/-/ə/)
Other symbols
The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with primary stress.
The symbol ˌ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with secondary stress.
Round brackets ( ) in a transcription indicate that the symbol within the brackets is optional.
Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛd(ə)l/ but /ˈpɛdl̩i/.
Vowels
ifleece, happy
ɪkit
ɛdress
ætrap, bath
ɑlot, palm, cloth, thought
ɑrstart
ɔcloth, thought
ɔrnorth, force
ʊfoot
ugoose
əstrut, comma
ərnurse, letter
ɪ(ə)rnear
ɛ(ə)rsquare
ʊ(ə)rcure
eɪface
aɪpride
aʊmouth
oʊgoat
ɔɪvoice
ɑ̃gratin
æ̃salon
ᵻ(/ɪ/-/ə/)
ᵿ(/ʊ/-/ə/)
Other symbols
The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with primary stress.
The symbol ˌ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with secondary stress.
Round brackets ( ) in a transcription indicate that the symbol within the brackets is optional.
Simple text respell breaks words into syllables, separated by a hyphen. The syllable which carries the primary stress is written in capital letters. This key covers both British and U.S. English Simple Text Respell.
Consonants
b, d, f, h, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, w and z have their standard English values
gguy
jjay
yyore
chchore
khloch
shshore
ththaw
dhthee
zhbeige
Vowels
atrap
ahpalm
airsquare
arstart
arrcarry (British only)
awthought
ayface
a(ng)gratin
edress
eefleece
eerdeer
errmerry
ikit
ighpride
irrmirror
olot (British only)
ohgoat
oogoose
oorcure
orforce
orrsorry (British only)
owmouth
oyvoice
o(ng)salon
ustrut
uhletter
urnurse
urrhurry
uufoot
Forms
Variant forms
1.
α.
1800s–1900s
zinziberaceous
β.
1800s–
zingiberaceous
Frequency
zingiberaceous typically occurs fewer than 0.01 times per million words in modern written English.
zingiberaceous is in frequency band 1, which contains words occurring fewer than 0.001 times per million words in modern written English. More about OED's frequency bands
Frequency data is computed programmatically, and should be regarded as an estimate.
Frequency of zingiberaceous, adj., 1850–2010
* Occurrences per million words in written English
Historical frequency series are derived from Google Books Ngrams (version 2), a data set based on the Google Books corpus of several million books printed in English between 1500 and 2010.
The overall frequency for a given word is calculated by summing frequencies for the main form of the word, any plural or inflected forms, and any major spelling variations.
For sets of homographs (distinct entries that share the same word-form, e.g. mole, n.¹, mole, n.², mole, n.³, etc.), we have estimated the frequency of each homograph entry as a fraction of the total Ngrams frequency for the word-form. This may result in inaccuracies.
Smoothing has been applied to series for lower-frequency words, using a moving-average algorithm. This reduces short-term fluctuations, which may be produced by variability in the content of the Google Books corpus.
Decade
Frequency per million words
1850
0.0005
1860
0.0006
1870
0.0012
1880
0.0011
1890
0.0011
1900
0.0012
1910
0.0012
1920
0.0012
1930
0.0012
1940
0.0007
1950
0.0007
1960
0.0006
1970
0.0005
1980
0.0004
1990
0.0005
2000
0.0004
2010
0.0003
zingiberaceous, adj. was revised in March 2021.
zingiberaceous, adj. was last modified in July 2023.