Definition of Alpinia

1. Noun. Perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Alpinia

Alphonso
Alpine
Alpine anemone
Alpine besseya
Alpine celery pine
Alpine enchanter's nightshade
Alpine fir
Alpine glacier
Alpine golden chain
Alpine lady fern
Alpine lift
Alpine mouse-ear
Alpine scurvy
Alpine type of glacier
Alpine woodsia
Alpinia
Alpinia Zerumbet
Alpinia galanga
Alpinia officinalis
Alpinia officinarum
Alpinia purpurata
Alpinia speciosa
Alpinism
Alport's syndrome
Alps
Alrisha
Alsace
Alsatia
Alsatian

Literary usage of Alpinia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"alpinia AURANTIACA, Wall. A native of Singapore. ( alpinia BRACTEATA, Roxb. 163. ... 5 7 Г. alpinia MU ПСА- Roxb. A native of Penang, has large flowers, ..."

2. Publication by Field Museum of Natural History (1902)
"[Curcuma longa L. Cult. Eggers p. H2.J 205. [alpinia nutans Rat. Cult. Eggers p. 112.] 206. [Renealmia sylvestris Gris. Eggers Fl. 957. ..."

3. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1847)
"alpinia NUTANS. (Nodding-flower«! ... and placed in alpinia, by Mr. Roscoe, in an early volume of the "Linnean Society's Transactions. ..."

4. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1817)
"Stylus longitudine filamenti, in sulco anthers receptus. Stigma obsolete trigonum. Caps, carnosa. Specific Character and Synonyms. alpinia nut ans ..."

5. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1810)
"Cluster'd alpinia. N'ai, of the West Indie?. Gift. ... Occidental alpinia. Nat. of Jamaica. ... 30o. ' Single plate by Syd. Edwards. Drooping alpinia. ..."

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