SCREW TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does screw tree mean? 

• 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.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCREW TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tree or shrub of the genus Helicteres

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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)