ALPINIA GALANGA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Alpinia galanga mean? 

• ALPINIA GALANGA (noun)
  The noun ALPINIA GALANGA has 1 sense:

1. southeastern Asian perennial with aromatic roots

  Familiarity information: ALPINIA GALANGA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALPINIA GALANGA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Southeastern Asian perennial with aromatic roots

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Alpinia galanga; galangal

Hypernyms ("Alpinia galanga" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Alpinia galanga" is a member of...):

Alpinia; genus Alpinia; genus Languas; genus Zerumbet (perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes)