noun
cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes
• Syn: ↑shellflower, ↑shall-flower, ↑Alpinia Zerumbet, ↑Alpinia speciosa, ↑Languas speciosa
• Hypernyms: ↑ginger
• Member Holonyms: ↑Alpinia, ↑genus Alpinia, ↑genus Zerumbet, ↑genus Languas
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noun : a large ornamental herb (Alpinia speciosa) from eastern Asia having clusters of irregularly bell-shaped flowers that are white marked with red and yellow and that bend downward from the tip of leafy arching stems which are 5 to 12 feet high
Useful english dictionary. 2012.