welwitschia
/wɛlˈwɪt͡ʃɪə/noun
welwitschia is a noun meaning “Any member of the species Welwitschia mirabilis, a desert plant of southwest Africa” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-E-L-W-I-T-S-C-H-I-A, and it appears about once in every 63 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of welwitschia is welwitschias.
What does welwitschia mean?
noun
- 1
Any member of the species Welwitschia mirabilis, a desert plant of southwest Africa.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce welwitschia?
- /wɛlˈwɪt͡ʃɪə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of welwitschia
- welwitschias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is welwitschia?
Welwitschia appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Welwitschia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Welwitschia mirabilis, a desert plant of southwest Africa:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | welwitschia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does welwitschia come from?
From the genus name Welwitschia, after Austrian explorer and botanist Friedrich Welwitsch.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).