English dictionary
welwitschia
Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
noun
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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
Synonyms welwitschia mirabilisSource: WordNet 3.0
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An African plant (<i>Welwitschia mirabilis</i>) belonging to the order <i>Gnetaceæ</i>. 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.
Source: webster1913