The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gingerbread tree
Gingerbread \Gin"ger*bread`\, n.
A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and
sometimes made in fanciful shapes. ``Gingerbread that was
full fine.''
--Chaucer.
Gingerbread tree (Bot.), the doom palm; -- so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm.
Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character.