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SCREW TREE

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• SCREW TREE (noun)
The noun SCREW TREE has 1 sense:

1. a tree or shrub of the genus Helicteres

Familiarity information: SCREW TREE used as a noun is very rare.

• SCREW TREE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A tree or shrub of the genus Helicteres

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("screw tree" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "screw tree"):

Helicteres isora; nut-leaved screw tree (East Indian shrub often cultivated for its hairy leaves and orange-red flowers)

Holonyms ("screw tree" is a member of...):

genus Helicteres; Helicteres (genus of shrubs and small trees of tropical America and Asia having cylindrical fruits spirally twisted around one another)

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Meaning of nut-leaved screw tree
Meaning of genus Helicteres
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Meaning of Helicteres isora
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