WELWITSCHIA

welwitschia, Welwitschia mirabilis

(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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

welwitschia (plural welwitschias)

Welwitschia mirabilis, a desert plant of southwest Africa.

Source: Wiktionary

Wel*witsch"i*a, n. Etym: [NL. So named after the discoverer, Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch.] (Bot.)

Definition: An African plant (Welwitschia mirabilis) belonging to the order Gnetaceæ. 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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