languas speciosa

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

   Synonymsshellflowershall-flowershell gingerAlpinia ZerumbetAlpinia speciosa

   Broaderginger

   Part ofAlpinia

Questions about languas speciosa

What does languas speciosa mean?

languas speciosa 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 languas speciosa?

Close synonyms include shellflower, shall-flower, shell ginger, Alpinia Zerumbet, Alpinia 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 languas speciosa a common word?

languas speciosa 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.