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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun liverwort has 1 sense
- liverwort(n = noun.plant) hepatic - any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses; Array is a kind of bryophyte, nonvascular plant
has particulars: hornwort, leafy liverwort, scale moss, hepatica, marchantia polymorpha
is a member of class hepaticae, class hepaticopsida, hepaticae, hepaticopsida
CIDE DICTIONARY
liverwort, n.
- A ranunculaceous plant (
Anemone Hepatica ) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called alsosquirrel cups . [1913 Webster] - A flowerless plant (
Marchantia polymorpha ), having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond. [1913 Webster]" From this plant many others of the same order (Hepaticæ ) have been vaguely called liverworts, esp. those of the tribeMarchantiaceæ . See Illust. ofHepatica ." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
liverwort, n. any small leafy or thalloid bryophyte of the class Hepaticae, of which some have liver-shaped parts.
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