Found 2 items, similar to Liverwort.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: liverwort
liverwort
n : any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class
Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green
seaweeds or leafy mosses
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Liverwort
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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