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    GENUS HELICTERES

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Genus of shrubs and small trees of tropical America and Asia having cylindrical fruits spirally twisted around one anotherplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Helicteres; Helicteres

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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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