genus welwitchia
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1. type and sole genus of Welwitschiaceae (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | gymnosperm genus, |
definition | : | a genus of gymnosperms (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | welwitschia, welwitschia mirabilis, |
definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
member meronym | : | family welwitschiaceae, welwitschiaceae, |
definition | : | in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae (noun.plant) |
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