helipterum

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   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

   Synonymsgenus Helipterum

   Broaderasterid dicot genus

   Part ofCompositae

Other forms of helipterum

plural

helipterums·

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.

Questions about helipterum

What does helipterum mean?

helipterum means "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".

How many syllables are in helipterum?

helipterum has 4 syllables: he-lip-te-rum. The stress falls on "lip".

What is another word for helipterum?

Close synonyms include genus Helipterum. 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 helipterum a common word?

helipterum 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.