'Liverwort' definitions:

Definition of 'liverwort'

(from WordNet)
noun
Any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses [syn: liverwort, hepatic]

Definition of 'Liverwort'

From: 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A flowerless plant (Marchantia polymorpha), having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'liverwort'

From: 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.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. (Bot.) A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

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