资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sea ginger \Sea" gin"ger\ (Zo["o]l.)
   A hydroid coral of the genus Millepora, especially {M.
   alcicornis}, of the West Indies and Florida. So called
   because it stings the tongue like ginger. See Illust. under
   {Millepore}.