| NOUN | plant | Welwitschia mirabilis, welwitschia | 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 |
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| 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. | |
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| Synonym | welwitschia | |
| Member of | genus Welwitschia, genus Welwitchia | type and sole genus of Welwitschiaceae |
| Broader | gymnosperm | plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary |
| Spanish | welwitschia mirabilis, welwitschia | |
| Catalan | welwitschia mirabilis, welwitschia, welwítsquia | |
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