Found 2 items, similar to Welwitschia mirabilis.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: Welwitschia mirabilis Welwitschia mirabilis 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]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Welwitschia mirabilis 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]