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    SHALL-FLOWER

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripesplay

    Synonyms:

    Alpinia speciosa; Alpinia Zerumbet; Languas speciosa; shall-flower; shell ginger; shellflower

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("shall-flower" is a kind of...):

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

    Holonyms ("shall-flower" 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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