English
Detailed Synonyms for shellflower in English
shellflower:
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the shellflower
– cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes 1the shell ginger; the Languas speciosa; the Alpinia Zerumbet; the shellflower; the shall-flower; the Alpinia speciosa– cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes 1 -
the shellflower
– 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 1the snake-head; the Chelone glabra; the snakehead; the shell-flower; the turtlehead; the shellflower– 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 1