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welwitschia mirabilis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.15 in modern English

Syllables
wel-witschi-a mirabilis
IPA
35
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

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; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old

Synonyms

welwitschia

Questions

What does welwitschia mirabilis mean?
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

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