alpinia zerumbet

Questions about alpinia zerumbet

What does alpinia zerumbet mean?

alpinia zerumbet means "cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes".

What is another word for alpinia zerumbet?

Close synonyms include shellflower, shall-flower, shell ginger, Alpinia speciosa, Languas speciosa. 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 zerumbet a common word?

alpinia zerumbet 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.