galingale Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots
    Cyperus longus; galangal.

WordNet

Gal"in*gale noun
Etymology
See Galangal.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus longus) having aromatic roots; also, any plant of the same genus. Chaucer.
    Meadow, set with slender galingale. Tennyson.

Webster 1913