WELWITSCHIA MIRABILIS
\wɛlwˈɪt͡ʃi͡ə mˈɜːɹɐbˌɪliz], \wɛlwˈɪtʃiə mˈɜːɹɐbˌɪliz], \w_ɛ_l_w_ˈɪ_tʃ_iə m_ˈɜː_ɹ_ɐ_b_ˌɪ_l_i_z]\
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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
By Princeton University
Word of the day
basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).
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