Definition of Helipterum

1. Noun. Genus of South African and Australian herbs or shrubs grown as everlastings; the various Helipterum species are currently in process of being assigned to other genera especially genera Pteropogon and Hyalosperma.

Exact synonyms: Genus Helipterum
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Strawflower

Lexicographical Neighbors of Helipterum

Helicidae
Heliconian
Helicteres
Helicteres isora
Helie
Helie's bundle
Heliobacter
Heliobacter pylori
Heliopolis
Helios
Heliothis
Heliothis zia
Heliozoa
Heliozoea
Helipterum (current term)
Helipterum manglesii
Helisoma trivolvis
Helix aspersa
Helix hortensis
Helix pomatia
Helkesaite
Helkesaites
Hell
Hell's Half Acre
Hell's Kitchen
Hell Week
Hell hole
Hell holes
Hell no

Literary usage of Helipterum

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

1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"Genus Helipterum Helipterum (Greek, helios, the sun, and pteron, a wing). A genus comprising about forty species of herbs, rarely small shrubs, ..."

2. Report on the Work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia by Baldwin Spencer, William Austin Horn (1896)
"Helipterum FLORIBUNDUM, De Cand. Hermannsburg (Kempe) ; junction of Finke and Palmer Kivers, ... Helipterum STRICTUM, Bentham. Stuart's Pass by Brinkley ..."

3. Geographic Travels in Central Australia from 1872 to 1874 by Ernest Giles (1875)
"Prodr. VI., 215. Between the Alberga and Mount Olga. Helipterum ... Fl. Austr. III., 643. MacDonnell's Bange. Helipterum ..."

4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"The cult, kinds are annual herbs (or grown as such), of easiest cult, in any garden soil. A. Heads large, 1802. Helipterum ..."

5. Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1891)
"Some South- African species of Helichrysum and Helipterum are also highly eligible for these purposes of decoration ; as such may be mentioned Helichrysum ..."

6. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1913)
"... are often placed under the genus Helipterum, These both for bedding and for ... second of these everlastings which belongs to the genus Helipterum, or, ..."

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