"shell ginger" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: shell gingers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} shell ginger (usually uncountable, plural shell gingers)
  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. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (lifeform): Flowers, Ginger family plants Translations (Alpinia zerumbet): bsyaw (Atayal), 月桃 (gettō) (alt: げっとう) (Japanese), alpinia [feminine] (Polish)

Inflected forms

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