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Definition of Helicteres
1. Noun. Genus of shrubs and small trees of tropical America and Asia having cylindrical fruits spirally twisted around one another.
Exact synonyms: Genus Helicteres
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Sterculiaceae, Sterculia Family, Sterculiaceae
Member holonyms: Screw Tree
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Sterculiaceae, Sterculia Family, Sterculiaceae
Member holonyms: Screw Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Helicteres
Literary usage of Helicteres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1819)
"On comparing our plant with specimens from the East- Indies, it appears to us to
agree exactly with them, and not with Helicteres jamaicensis, ..."
2. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1812)
"Mr. Fr. Masson. Introd. 1790. Fl. May and June. GH ^. Helicteres. Gen. pi. 734.
... Helicteres jamaicensis. ..."
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