Definition of Genus helicteres

1. Noun. Genus of shrubs and small trees of tropical America and Asia having cylindrical fruits spirally twisted around one another.

Exact synonyms: Helicteres
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Sterculiaceae, Sterculia Family, Sterculiaceae
Member holonyms: Screw Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Helicteres

genus Hardenbergia
genus Harpia
genus Harpullia
genus Harrisia
genus Hatiora
genus Hazardia
genus Hedeoma
genus Hedera
genus Hedysarum
genus Helenium
genus Heleodytes
genus Heliamphora
genus Helianthemum
genus Helianthus
genus Helichrysum
genus Helicteres
genus Heliobacter
genus Heliophila
genus Heliopsis
genus Heliothis
genus Helipterum
genus Helix
genus Helleborus
genus Helminthostachys
genus Heloderma
genus Helotium
genus Helvella
genus Helwingia
genus Helxine
genus Hemachatus

Literary usage of Genus helicteres

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Magazine of Natural History (1831)
"... as the name of a new genus of land shells from the South Seas, not being aware that it formed one of the sections of the French genus Helicteres. ..."

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