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

2. showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple

1. : molucca balm

2. : turtlehead

3. : a showy East Indian herb (Languas speciosa) of the family Zingiberaceae commonly cultivated for its shining oblong leaves, bracted white flowers with shell-pink shading, and crisped yellow magenta-variegated lip

/shel"flow'euhr/. n.

1. an eastern Asian plant, Alpinia zerumbet, of the ginger family, having pendulous clusters of fragrant white flowers with variegated markings.

2. See bells of Ireland.

3. any of several other plants with flowers or parts thought to resemble shells, as those of the genus Tigridia.

[1835-45; SHELL + FLOWER]