Shell ginger
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An East Asian plant related to ginger, Alpinia zerumbet, grown for its showy flowers, which are shell-pink on the outside and intensely orange and red on the inside. uncountable, usually
- 2 cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes wordnet