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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

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Nouns denoting plants

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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