shall-flower

Questions about shall-flower

What does shall-flower mean?

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

How many syllables are in shall-flower?

shall-flower has 3 syllables and divides as shall--flo-wer 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 shall-flower?

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

shall-flower 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.