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A plant of the genus Zingiber, of the East and West Indies. The species most known is Z. officinale.
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The fabled "universal solvent" of the alchemists; a menstruum capable of dissolving all bodies. →
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Something of unequaled excellence; a peerless thing or person; a nonesuch; -- often used as a name. →
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The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's →
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A body, usually spheroidal, in a cell or a protozoan, distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents. It is more or less protoplasmic, and consists of a clear fluid (achromatin) through which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may be suspended a second rounded body, the nucleolus (see Nucleoplasm). See Cell division, under Division. →