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Welwitschia
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Wel-witsch′i-a
,Noun.
[NL. So named after the discoverer, Dr.
Friedrich
.] Welwitsch
(Bot.)
An African plant (
Welwitschia mirabilis
) belonging to the order Gnetaceae
. 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.