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English noun: welwitschia

1. welwitschia (plant) 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


SynonymsWelwitschia mirabilis


Broader (hypernym)gymnosperm


Member meronymgenus Welwitchia, genus Welwitschia









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