Welwitschia mirabilis : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Welwitschia mirabilis	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Welwitschia mirabilis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Welwitschia mirabilis 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 Synonym(s): welwitschia, Welwitschia mirabilis
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Welwitschia \[d8]Welwitsch"ia\, n. [NL. So named after the discoverer, Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch.] (Bot.) An African plant ({Welwitschia mirabilis}) belonging to the order {Gnetace[91]}. 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.