shellflower

shellflower
noun
1. cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes
• Hypernyms: ↑ginger
• Member Holonyms: ↑Alpinia, ↑genus Alpinia, ↑genus Zerumbet, ↑genus Languas
2. showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple
• Hypernyms: ↑marsh plant, ↑bog plant, ↑swamp plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Chelone, ↑genus Chelone

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3. : a showy East Indian herb (Languas speciosa) of the family Zingiberaceae commonly cultivated for its shining oblong leaves, bracted white flowers with shell-pink shading, and crisped yellow magenta-variegated lip

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/shel"flow'euhr/. n.
1. an eastern Asian plant, Alpinia zerumbet, of the ginger family, having pendulous clusters of fragrant white flowers with variegated markings.
3. any of several other plants with flowers or parts thought to resemble shells, as those of the genus Tigridia.
[1835-45; SHELL + FLOWER]

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