genus welwitschia

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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)