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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: welwitschia
welwitschia
n : 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 [syn:
Welwitschia mirabilis
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Welwitschia
Welwitschia
\Wel*witsch"i*a\, n. [NL. So named after the
discoverer, Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch.] (Bot.)
An African plant (
Welwitschia mirabilis) belonging to the
order
Gnetace[ae]. 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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