HELICTERES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Helicteres mean? 

• HELICTERES (noun)
  The noun 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: HELICTERES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HELICTERES (noun)

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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 ("Helicteres" is a kind of...):

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "Helicteres"):

screw tree (a tree or shrub of the genus Helicteres)

Holonyms ("Helicteres" is a member of...):

family Sterculiaceae; sterculia family; Sterculiaceae (a large family of plants of order Malvales)