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ALPINIA SPECIOSA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Alpinia speciosa mean? 

ALPINIA SPECIOSA (noun)
  The noun ALPINIA SPECIOSA 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 stripesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


ALPINIA SPECIOSA (noun)


Sense 1

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 speciosa" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Alpinia speciosa" 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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