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| has gloss | (noun) Chinese perennial with pyramidal racemes of white flowers and pungent aromatic roots used medicinally and as flavoring Alpinia officinalis, Alpinia officinarum, lesser galangal |
| has gloss | eng: Alpinia officinarum, known as lesser galangal, is a plant in the ginger family. Lesser galangal is native to China, growing mainly on the southeast coast. It is also grown in India which is the second largest exporter of the rhizome. The rhizome was widely used in ancient and medieval Europe. The rhizome is smaller than greater galangal. The skin and the flesh are reddish brown whereas greater galangal has light yellow or white flesh. It was preferred to greater galangal because of its stronger, sweeter taste with notes of cinnamon. Its use in Europe has dramatically declined, however, and is now only used in Eastern Europe. It is used in Russia for flavoring vinegar and the liqueur Nastoika. It is still used as a spice and medicine in Lithuania and Estonia. In Central Asia, Tartars prepare a kind of tea that contains it. The spice used in South Eastern Asia which often goes by the name of "Lesser Galangal" is actually Kaempferia galanga. |
| lexicalization | eng: Alpinia officinalis |
| lexicalization | eng: Alpinia officinarum |
| lexicalization | eng: lesser galangal |
| subclass of | (noun) perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems ginger |
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| German | |
| has gloss | deu: Der Echte Galgant (Alpinia officinarum), auch Galgantwurzel, Kleiner Galgant, Galgant oder Siam-Galgant genannt, gehört zur Familie der Ingwergewächse (Zingiberaceae). Er wird als Gewürz- und Heilpflanze verwendet. |
| lexicalization | deu: Echter Galgant |
| French | |
| has gloss | fra: Le petit galanga, galanga camphré ou galangal officinal (Alpinia officinarum) est une espèce de plante herbacée vivace et rhizomateuse de la famille des Zingiberaceae, originaire de Chine. |
| lexicalization | fra: petit galanga |
| Italian | |
| has gloss | ita: La Galanga minore (Alpinia officinarum) è una pianta appartenente alla famiglia delle Zingiberaceae. è una pianta nativa della Cina, in particolare delle coste del sud-est (Isola di Hainan), cresce comunque bene anche in India e in tutto il Sud-Est asiatico. Numerose piante delle stessa famiglia vengono erroneamente chiamate galanga minore, ad esempio la Kaempferia galanga o la Boesenbergia pandurata, spesso gli stessi nomi comuni sono intercambiabili. Conosciuta in Europa sin dal medio evo, viene menzionata negli scritti degli arabi Avicenna e Rhazes e descritta per la prima volta da H. F. Hance su una rivista scientifica (Journal of the Linnéan Society, 1871). Il nome si pensa derivi dall’ arabo Khanlanjan, che di rimando sembra a sua volta essere la distorsione di una parola cinese che significa “zenzero dolce”. |
| lexicalization | ita: Alpinia officinarum |
| Polish | |
| has gloss | pol: Alpinia lekarska (Alpinia officinarum Hance), nazywana także gałgantem chińskim lub gałgantem wielkim – gatunek roślin z rodziny imbirowatych. Pochodzi z południowych Chin, Indochin i Tajwanu. Obecnie uprawiana również na wschodnich wybrzeżach Indii, w Japonii i Antylach. |
| lexicalization | pol: Alpinia lekarska |
| Russian | |
| has gloss | rus: Альпи́ния лека́рственная, или Калга́н лекарственный, или Галангал ма́лый — вид травянистых растений рода семейства , встречается в Средиземноморье, Средней Азии и Передней Азии, на Кавказе, в Южной Африке, Южной и Северной Америке. |
| lexicalization | rus: Альпиния лекарственная |
| Slovak | |
| has gloss | slk: Alpínia liečivá (Alpinia officinarum) je rastlina z čeľade ďumbierovité (Zingiberaceae). |
| lexicalization | slk: Alpínia liečivá |
| Castilian | |
| has gloss | spa: Alpinia officinarum , es una especie fanerógama perteneciente a la familia Zingiberaceae. Distribución Es natural de Tailandia y de China (Hainan). Descripción Es una planta herbácea perenne con tallo erecto que alcanza 50-120 cm. de altura. Rizoma nudoso de color marrón-rojizo con bandas circulares de color más claro, está cubierto de escamas, es semejante al jengibre y tiene sabor picante. Las hojas son de 30 cm de largo, son alternas, lanceoladas y enteras. Las flores son blancas con venas color rosa y se agrupan en una densa panícula terminal de hasta 30 cm. de largo, tiene cáliz superior tubular, corola blanca con 3 lóbulos. El fruto es una cápsula con tres valvas. |
| lexicalization | spa: Alpinia officinarum |
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| member of | (noun) perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes genus Alpinia, genus Languas, Alpinia, genus Zerumbet |
| similar | e/Alpinia officinarum |
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| media:img | Koeh-156.jpg |
| media:img | Lesser galangal Kencur Luc Viatour.jpg |
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