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Acanthosicyos horridus

Index Acanthosicyos horridus

Acanthosicyos horridus is an unusual melon that occurs only in Namibia; it is locally called naras or nara. [1]

15 relations: A. horridus, Acanthoproctus diadematus, Acanthosicyos, Cucurbitacin, Cucurbitoideae, Deadvlei, Famine food, Friedrich Welwitsch, Inara, List of Southern African indigenous trees and woody lianes, Nara, Topnaar people, Ugab River, Utuseb, Wild Africa.

A. horridus

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Acanthoproctus diadematus

Acanthoproctus diadematus (Namibia katydid) is an armoured katydid, bush-cricket, or ground cricket endemic to the Namib Desert of southern Africa, where it lives in the tall sand dunes along the Kuiseb River in Namib-Naukluft National Park.

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Acanthosicyos

Acanthosicyos is a genus of thorny shrubs of the botanical family Cucurbitaceae, subfamily Cucurbitoideae.

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Cucurbitacin

Cucurbitacin is any of a class of biochemical compounds that some plants — notably members of the family Cucurbitaceae, which includes the common pumpkins and gourds — produce and which function as a defence against herbivores.

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Cucurbitoideae

The Cucurbitoideae are a subfamily of the Cucurbitaceae, or gourd family, of flowering plants.

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Deadvlei

Deadvlei is a white clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, inside the Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia.

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Famine food

A famine food or poverty food is any inexpensive or readily available food used to nourish people in times of hunger and starvation, whether caused by extreme poverty such as during economic depression; by natural disasters, such as drought; or by war or genocide.

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Friedrich Welwitsch

Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (5 February 1806 – 20 October 1872) was an Austrian explorer and botanist who in Angola discovered the plant Welwitschia mirabilis.

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Inara

Inara may refer to.

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List of Southern African indigenous trees and woody lianes

This is a list of Southern African trees, shrubs, suffrutices, geoxyles and lianas, and is intended to cover Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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Nara

Nara or Na-ra may refer to.

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Topnaar people

The Topnaar people (ǂAonin) are a clan of the Nama people in Namibia.

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Ugab River

The Ugab River is an ephemeral river that only flows above the surface of its sandy bed a few days each year, but even during much of the dry season its subterranean water surfaces as pools in places, and provides an important resource for species in the Damaraland region of northern Namibia.

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Utuseb

Utuseb is a small settlement in the Erongo Region in western central Namibia.

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Wild Africa

Wild Africa is a British nature documentary series created and produced by the BBC, it explores the natural history of the African continent.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthosicyos_horridus

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