Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun alpinia_speciosa

1 sense of alpinia speciosa

Sense 1
shellflower, shall-flower, shell ginger, Alpinia Zerumbet, Alpinia speciosa, Languas speciosa -- (cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes)
       => ginger -- (perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems)