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GENUS WELWITCHIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Type and sole genus of Welwitschiaceae
Synonyms:
genus Welwitchia; genus Welwitschia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Welwitchia" is a kind of...):
gymnosperm genus (a genus of gymnosperms)
Meronyms (members of "genus Welwitchia"):
welwitschia; Welwitschia mirabilis (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)
Holonyms ("genus Welwitchia" is a member of...):
family Welwitschiaceae; Welwitschiaceae (in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae)