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welwitschia
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun welwitschia has 1 sense
- welwitschia(n = noun.plant) welwitschia mirabilis - curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide trunk like a turnip with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old; Array is a kind of gymnosperm
is a member of genus welwitchia, genus welwitschia
CIDE DICTIONARY
welwitschia, n. [NL. So named after the discoverer, Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch .].
An African plant (Welwitschia mirabilis ) belonging to the order Gnetaceæ . It consists of a short, woody, topshaped stem, and never more than two leaves, which are the cotyledons enormously developed, and at length split into diverging segments. [1913 Webster]
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