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

Type of: dilleniid dicot genus

Part of: family Sterculiaceae, sterculia family, Sterculiaceae

Encyclopedia: Helicteres