ALPINIA OFFICINALIS

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Meaning:

Chinese perennial with pyramidal racemes of white flowers and pungent aromatic roots used medicinally and as flavoring

Synonyms:

Alpinia officinalis; Alpinia officinarum; lesser galangal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Holonyms ("Alpinia officinalis" 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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