helicteres

English Thesaurus

1. genus of shrubs and small trees of tropical America and Asia having cylindrical fruits spirally twisted around one another (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	dilleniid dicot genus,
definition	:	genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	screw tree,
definition	:	a tree or shrub of the genus Helicteres (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family sterculiaceae, sterculia family, sterculiaceae,
definition	:	a large family of plants of order Malvales (noun.plant)