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, ↑shell ginger, ↑Alpinia Zerumbet, ↑Alpinia speciosa
• Hypernyms: ↑ginger
• Member Holonyms: ↑Alpinia, ↑genus Alpinia, ↑genus Zerumbet, ↑genus Languas
Useful english dictionary. 2012.