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shellflower   (TTS Sound)

The noun shellflower has 2 senses

• shellflower, shell-flower, turtlehead, snakehead, snake-head, Chelone glabra -- (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)


• shellflower, shall-flower, shell ginger, Alpinia Zerumbet, Alpinia speciosa, Languas speciosa -- (cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes)