shell ginger

Questions about shell ginger

What does shell ginger mean?

shell ginger 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 shell ginger?

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

shell ginger 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.