WELWITSCHIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does welwitschia mean? 

• WELWITSCHIA (noun)
  The noun WELWITSCHIA has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: WELWITSCHIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WELWITSCHIA (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

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

welwitschia; Welwitschia mirabilis

Hypernyms ("welwitschia" is a kind of...):

gymnosperm (plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary)

Holonyms ("welwitschia" is a member of...):

genus Welwitchia; genus Welwitschia (type and sole genus of Welwitschiaceae)