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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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;
[syn: welwitschia, Welwitschia mirabilis]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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 Gnetaceae. 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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Welwitschia mirabilis n 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 [syn: welwitschia, Welwitschia mirabilis]