English noun: Helicteres | |||
1. | Helicteres (plant) genus of shrubs and small trees of tropical America and Asia having cylindrical fruits spirally twisted around one another | ||
Synonyms | genus Helicteres | ||
Broader (hypernym) | dilleniid dicot genus | ||
Member holonym | screw tree | ||
Member meronym | family Sterculiaceae, sterculia family, Sterculiaceae | ||