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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
helicteres is a noun meaning "genus of shrubs and small trees of tropical America and Asia having cylindrical fruits spirally twisted around one another". It carries one recorded sense.
genus of shrubs and small trees of tropical America and Asia having cylindrical fruits spirally twisted around one another
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for helicteres come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.