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WELWITSCHIA MIRABILIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Welwitschia mirabilis mean? 

WELWITSCHIA MIRABILIS (noun)
  The noun WELWITSCHIA MIRABILIS 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 oldplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


WELWITSCHIA MIRABILIS (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

welwitschia; Welwitschia mirabilis

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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