Abstract Among the species of Zingiberaceae family, ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) is best known and studied species, with several reported ornamental, medicinal, culinary properties. Many ornamental genus Zingiber are commonly treated as gingers by analogy. This study provides a list Zingiber, information on synonyms comments aspects.

The word “synonymy” is used here in a very broad and untraditional sense; it is not restricted to lexical linguistic signs, i.e., words, but covers also relations of equivalence between units below the word level, i.e., morphemes and non-phonemic signs. For instance, the ending -en in oxen can be regarded as synonymous with the standard ending -s in cows . In my view, semantic description could...

Two types of similarities between words have been studied in the natural language processing community: synonymy and relational similarity. A high degree of similarity exist between synonymous words. On the other hand, a high degree of relational similarity exists between analogous word pairs. We present and empirically test a hypothesis that links these two types of similarities. Specifically,...