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';
 
Chinese (simplified) 千岁兰 , 百岁叶
English welwitschia , Welwitschia mirabilis
Japanese ウェルウィッチア , 奇想天外 , 砂漠万年青
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
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 ❲Welwitschia mirabilis❳ (rewrite_defs.py)
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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