shampoo ginger

English

Noun

shampoo ginger (countable and uncountable, plural shampoo gingers)

1. An Asian and Polynesian plant related to ginger, Zingiber zerumbet, whose inflorescence contains a substance used as a shampoo.

   Synonyms: pinecone ginger, bitter ginger, zerumbet

Translations

plant related to ginger, Zingiber zerumbet

• Arabic: زُرُنْبَاد m (zurunbād)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紅球薑／红球姜 (hóngqiújiāng)

• French: zérumbet (fr)
• Hawaiian: ʻawapuhi, ʻōpuhi
• Indonesian: lempuyang (id)
• Latin: zurumbet (Medieval)
• Malay: lempoyang
• Persian: زرنباد (zoronbâd)
• Samoan: 'avapuhi (sm)
• Thai: กะทือ (th)
• Tongan: angoango
• Vietnamese: gừng gió (vi)