Liverwort

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Liverwort \Liv"er*wort`\, n. (Bot.)
     1. A ranunculaceous plant ({Anemone Hepatica}) with pretty
        white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called
        also {squirrel cups}.
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     2. A flowerless plant ({Marchantia polymorpha}), having an
        irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond.
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     Note: From this plant many others of the same order
           ({Hepatic[ae]}) have been vaguely called liverworts,
           esp. those of the tribe {Marchantiace[ae]}. See Illust.
           of {Hepatica}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hepatica \He*pat"i*ca\, n.; pl. {Hepatic[ae]}. [NL. See
     {Hepatic}. So called in allusion to the shape of the lobed
     leaves or fronds.]
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     1. (Bot.) A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to
        Anemone; squirrel cup.
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     2. (bot.) Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the
        cryptogamous class Hepatic[ae]; -- called also {scale
        moss} and {liverwort}. See {Hepatic[ae]}, in the
        Supplement.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  liverwort
       n : any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class
           Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green
           seaweeds or leafy mosses