Word.ws English Dictionary

helicranes

helicranes is the plural of helicrane.

Meaning of helicrane

Noun

helicrane (plural helicranes)

  1. A heavy-lift helicopter.
    • On a lighter note, Mr Rudd remarked that Elvis was indeed still alive, referring to the firefighting helicrane that doused the community with 9000 litres of water as flames swept across the region.2009 February 16, John Ferguson, “Prime Minister Kevin Rudd tries to raise a little boy's spirits”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2009
    Synonyms:
    aircrane

Questions about helicranes

What is helicranes the plural of?
Helicranes is the plural of helicrane.

Words near helicranes in the dictionary

  1. helicosporous
  2. helicotrema
  3. helicotremas
  4. helicotremata
  5. helicrane
  6. helicranes
  7. helictical
  8. helictite
  9. helictites
  10. helictoglossa
  11. helictoglossae

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: helicranes (page history and authors); helicrane (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “helicranes.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/helicranes. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.