Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun welwitschia

1 sense of welwitschia

Sense 1
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)
       => gymnosperm -- (plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary)