welwitschia   (TTS Sound)

The noun welwitschia has 1 sense

• 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)