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helicopterons

helicopterons 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 helicopterons

What is helicopterons the plural of?
Helicopterons is the plural of helicopteron.

Words near helicopterons in the dictionary

  1. helicoptered
  2. helicopterful
  3. helicoptering
  4. helicopterlike
  5. helicopteron
  6. helicopterons
  7. helicopters
  8. helicoptery
  9. helicopting
  10. helicoptor
  11. helicopts

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