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Liverwort n. (Bot.)

A ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; called also squirrel cups.

A flowerless plant (Marchantia polymorpha), having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond. Note: From this plant many others of the same order (Hepaticae) have been vaguely called liverworts, esp. those of the tribe Marchantiaceae.

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Etymology of 'Liverwort'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall

... silver-green, and the slim service-bush, white with blooms and writhing in maiden shame of her too transparent gown. In each tangled ravine Flora's little pious mortals of the May—anemone, yellow violet, blood-root, mustard, liverwort, and their yet humbler neighbors and kin—heard mass, or held meeting—whichever it was—and slept for blissful lack of brain while Jack-in-the-pulpit preached to them, under Solomon's seal, and oriole, tanager, warbler, thrush, up in the choir-loft, made love between the ...

— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable

Words linked to "Liverwort" : hornwort, hepatic, bryophyte, Hepaticopsida, nonvascular plant, class Hepaticae, leafy liverwort, class Hepaticopsida, Marchantia polymorpha, hepatica