Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Welwitschia"
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) 1.7 (wn)
welwitschia
n : 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
mirabilis}]
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