alpinia

Questions about alpinia

What does alpinia mean?

alpinia means "perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes".

How many syllables are in alpinia?

alpinia has 4 syllables and divides as al-pi-ni-a under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for alpinia?

Close synonyms include genus Alpinia, genus Zerumbet, genus Languas. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alpinia a common word?

alpinia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.