'Welwitschia mirabilis' definitions:
Definition of 'Welwitschia mirabilis'
From: WordNet
noun
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]
Definition of 'Welwitschia mirabilis'
From: GCIDE
- 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]