Crossword-Solution: GALANGAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Galangal | n. | The pungent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of Alpinia (A. Galanga and A. officinarum) and of the Kaempferia Galanga), -- all of the Ginger family. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with GALANGAL (5)
Etym: [See Galangal.] (Bot.) Defn: A plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus longus) having aromatic roots; also, any plant of the same genus.
And after this, she conducted them to the bath, and gave orders to wash them, and prepared for them boiled meats, and infusion of galangal, and apple-water, after they had come forth from the bath and dressed themselves.
Lesser galangal root, _radix galangae minoris_, the ordinary galangal of commerce, is the dried rhizome of _Alpinia officinarum_, a plant of the natural order Zingiberaceae, growing in the Chinese island of Hainan, where it is cultivated, and probably also in the woods of the southern provinces of China.
The plant is closely allied to _Alpinia calcarata_, the rhizome of which is sold in the bazaars of some parts of India as a sort of galangal.
Galangal seems to have been unknown to the ancient Greeks and Romans, and to have been first introduced into Europe by Arabian physicians.