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welwitschia |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: welwitschia n : curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide turniplike trunk 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}]
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