11599324-n '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';
 
English welwitschia , Welwitschia mirabilis
Japanese ウェルウィッチア
Definitions
English
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
Japanese
アフリカ南西部の乾燥地帯に生える珍奇な植物で、高さ幅ともに1ヤードのカブラのような幹と深く伸びる直根を持ち、宿存の大きな木性のひも状の葉が2枚基部から生えている
大昔に滅びた植物の残存種
いくつかは、700才から5000才であるかもしれない
Relations
Hypernym: gymnosperm
Holonym–Member: genus_welwitschia
Semantic Field: plantn
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SUMO: ⊂ FloweringPlant

TempoWN: (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.006; Future: 0.000)

SentiWN: (+0.00 -0.00) MLSentiCon: (+0.00 -0.00)


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