Term: helicteres: genus of shrubs and small trees of tropical America and Asia having cylindrical fruits spirally twisted around one another
Candidate hypernym: taxonomic group: animal or plant group having natural relations → 1
Candidate hypernym: phatic speech: conversational speech used to communicate sociability more than information → 0
Candidate hypernym: circuit: (law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals → 0
Candidate hypernym: handling: the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means → 0
Candidate hypernym: star apple: evergreen tree of West Indies and Central America having edible purple fruit star-shaped in cross section and dark green leaves with golden silky undersides → 0
Candidate hypernym: chilean jasmine: woody vine of Argentina grown as an ornamental for its glossy leaves and racemes of large fragrant funnel-shaped creamy-white flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: vestibule: any of various bodily cavities leading to another cavity (as of the ear or vagina) → 0
Candidate hypernym: chimpanzee: intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests → 0
Candidate hypernym: parietal lobe: that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying below the crown of the head → 0
Candidate hypernym: roller blind: a window shade that rolls up out of the way → 0
Candidate hypernym: dip: a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow → 0