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SHELLFLOWER
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I. (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
Synonyms:
Alpinia speciosa; Alpinia Zerumbet; Languas speciosa; shall-flower; shell ginger; shellflower
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("shellflower" is a kind of...):
ginger (perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems)
Holonyms ("shellflower" is a member of...):
Alpinia; genus Alpinia; genus Languas; genus Zerumbet (perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Chelone glabra; shell-flower; shellflower; snake-head; snakehead; turtlehead
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("shellflower" is a kind of...):
bog plant; marsh plant; swamp plant (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)
Holonyms ("shellflower" is a member of...):
Chelone; genus Chelone (herbaceous perennials: shellflower)
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