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GENUS HELICTERES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Helicteres mean?
• GENUS HELICTERES (noun)
The noun GENUS HELICTERES has 1 sense:
1. genus of shrubs and small trees of tropical America and Asia having cylindrical fruits spirally twisted around one another
Familiarity information: GENUS HELICTERES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of shrubs and small trees of tropical America and Asia having cylindrical fruits spirally twisted around one another
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Helicteres; Helicteres
Hypernyms ("genus Helicteres" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Helicteres"):
screw tree (a tree or shrub of the genus Helicteres)
Holonyms ("genus Helicteres" is a member of...):
family Sterculiaceae; sterculia family; Sterculiaceae (a large family of plants of order Malvales)
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