Associations to the word «Welwitschia»

Wiktionary

WELWITSCHIA, noun. The sole plant in the genus Welwitschia.

Dictionary definition

WELWITSCHIA, 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.

Wise words

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