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SHELL GINGER

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• SHELL GINGER (noun)
The noun SHELL GINGER 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: SHELL GINGER used as a noun is very rare.

• SHELL GINGER (noun)

Sense 1

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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 ("shell ginger" is a kind of...):

ginger (perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems)

Holonyms ("shell ginger" 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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