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welwitschia
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welwitschia, n. [NL. So named after the discoverer, Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch .].
An African plant (Welwitschia mirabilis ) belonging to the order Gnetaceæ . It consists of a short, woody, topshaped stem, and never more than two leaves, which are the cotyledons enormously developed, and at length split into diverging segments. [1913 Webster]
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