helicteres

Questions about helicteres

What does helicteres mean?

helicteres means "genus of shrubs and small trees of tropical America and Asia having cylindrical fruits spirally twisted around one another".

How many syllables are in helicteres?

helicteres has 3 syllables and divides as helic-te-res under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for helicteres?

Close synonyms include genus Helicteres. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is helicteres a common word?

helicteres is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.