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WELWITSCHIA MIRABILIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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; Welwitschia mirabilis
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Welwitschia mirabilis" is a kind of...):
gymnosperm (plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary)
Holonyms ("Welwitschia mirabilis" is a member of...):
genus Welwitchia; genus Welwitschia (type and sole genus of Welwitschiaceae)
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