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Noun: welwitschia
  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
    - Welwitschia mirabilis

Derived forms: welwitschias

Type of: gymnosperm

Part of: genus Welwitchia, genus Welwitschia

Encyclopedia: Welwitschia

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