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GENUS WELWITSCHIA

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Meaning:

Type and sole genus of Welwitschiaceae

Synonyms:

genus Welwitchia; genus Welwitschia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Welwitschia" is a kind of...):

gymnosperm genus (a genus of gymnosperms)

Meronyms (members of "genus Welwitschia"):

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 Welwitschia" is a member of...):

family Welwitschiaceae; Welwitschiaceae (in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae)

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