Ginger Root Peel

Ginger

Ginger is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice and a folk medicine. It is an herbaceous perennial that grows annual pseudostems about one meter tall, bearing narrow leaf blades. The inflorescences bear flowers having pale yellow petals with purple edges, and arise directly from the rhizome on separate shoots.

Root

In vascular plants, the roots are the organs of a plant that are modified to provide anchorage for the plant and take in water and nutrients into the plant body, which allows plants to grow taller and faster. They are most often below the surface of the soil, but roots can also be aerial or aerating, that is, growing up above the ground or especially above water.

ginger

Noun

1. The pungent aromatic rhizome of a tropical Asian herb, Zingiber officinale, used as a spice and as a stimulant and acarminative.
2. The plant that produces this rhizome.

Adjective

1. Of a reddish-brown color.
2. Having hair or fur of this color.

root

Noun

1. The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
2. A root vegetable.

Verb

1. To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
2. To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.

peel

Verb

1. To remove the skin or outer covering of.
2. To remove something from the outer or top layer of.

Noun

1. The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
2. The action of peeling away from a formation.