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helicoptera

helicoptera is the plural of helicopteron.

Meaning of helicopteron

Noun

helicopteron (plural helicopterons or helicoptera)

  1. (historical) A flying machine having an aerial screw propeller.
    • But though many of these projects called forth considerable inventive ability, yet, until quite recently, the helicopteron (from ἑλικός, any thing spiral or twisted, and πτερόν, a wing—that is, a machine furnished with an aërial screw-propeller) was the only type of machine which had succeeded in...1876 February, “Flying-Machines and Pénaud’s Artificial Bird”, in Alfred M. Mayer, transl., The Popular Science Monthly, volume VIII, translated from the Journal de Physique, New York, N.Y.: D....

Questions about helicoptera

What is helicoptera the plural of?
Helicoptera is the plural of helicopteron.

Words near helicoptera in the dictionary

  1. helicopter parenting
  2. helicopter parents
  3. helicopter seed
  4. helicopter shot
  5. helicopter shots
  6. helicoptera
  7. helicoptered
  8. helicopterful
  9. helicoptering
  10. helicopterlike
  11. helicopteron

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Adapted from Wiktionary: helicoptera (page history and authors); helicopteron (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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