ALPINIA ZERUMBET
Dictionary entry overview: What does Alpinia Zerumbet mean? • ALPINIA ZERUMBET (noun)
The noun ALPINIA ZERUMBET has 1 sense:
1. cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes
Familiarity information: ALPINIA ZERUMBET used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ALPINIA ZERUMBET (noun)
Meaning:
Cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Alpinia speciosa; Alpinia Zerumbet; Languas speciosa; shall-flower; shell ginger; shellflower
Hypernyms ("Alpinia Zerumbet" is a kind of...):
ginger (perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems)
Holonyms ("Alpinia Zerumbet" is a member of...):
Alpinia; genus Alpinia; genus Languas; genus Zerumbet (perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes)
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