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liverwort |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}. 2. A flowerless plant ({Marchantia polymorpha}), having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond. 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}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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.] 1. (Bot.) A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [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
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