white ginger

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white ginger - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Jamaica \Ja*mai"ca\, n.
     One of the West Indian islands.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Jamaica ginger, a variety of ginger, called also white  ginger
        , prepared in Jamaica from the best roots, which
        are deprived of their epidermis and dried separately.
  
     Jamaica pepper, allspice.
  
     Jamaica rose (Bot.), a West Indian melastomaceous shrub
        (Blakea trinervis), with showy pink flowers.
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