welwitschia mirabilis

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   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

   Synonymswelwitschia

   Broadergymnosperm

   Part ofgenus Welwitschia

Questions about welwitschia mirabilis

What does welwitschia mirabilis mean?

welwitschia mirabilis means "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".

What is another word for welwitschia mirabilis?

Close synonyms include welwitschia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is welwitschia mirabilis a common word?

welwitschia mirabilis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.