Welwitschia

[wel'witʃiә]

Definition

(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.

Editor: Wallace--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) An African plant (Welwitschia mirabilis) belonging to the order Gnetaceae. 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.

Typist: Tyler

Definition

n. a genus of African Gymnosperms belonging to the Gnetace and containing only one species its flower consisting of a panicle of brilliant overlapping scarlet scales.

Checker: Selma