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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
--1 is a kind of marsh plant, bog plant, swamp plant
--1 is a member of Chelone, genus Chelone
- shellflower, shall-flower, shell ginger, Alpinia Zerumbet, Alpinia speciosa, Languas speciosa - cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with shell-pink shading and crinkled yellow lip with variegated magenta stripes
--2 is a kind of ginger
--2 is a member of Alpinia, genus Alpinia, genus Zerumbet, genus Languas
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