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Adjective:
- Cockney rhyming slang|derogatory Queer (ie, homosexual) (''short for'' '''ginger beer''', ''rhyming with'' '''queer''').
- flavoured with ginger.
- (''used to describe hair'') Of a reddish-brown colour.
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Noun:
- Any plant of a genus (''Zingiber'', especially ''Zingiber officinale'') of tropical Asiatic and Polynesian herbs of a family (''Zingiberaceae'', the ginger family) with pungent aromatic rhizomes used as a condiment and as a stimulant and acarminative.
- (colour) A reddish-brown colour/color.
- colloquial|derogatory countable A person with reddish-brown hair.
- The rhizome of this plant used as a spice either as it is or in dried powdered form.
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Proper noun:
- a given name reserved for animals having ginger- or orange-coloured fur or feathers.
- female|from=English.
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