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alpinia
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun alpinia has 1 sense
- alpinia(n = noun.plant) genus alpinia, genus languas, genus zerumbet - perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes; Array is a kind of plant genus
is a member of family zingiberaceae, ginger family, zingiberaceae
CIDE DICTIONARY
alpinia, n.
a genus of perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes. [WordNet 1.5]
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