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Liverwort

Liverwort Meaning & Definition
Liverwort Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of 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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See Also | bryophyte | class Hepaticae | class Hepaticopsida | hepatica | Hepaticae | Hepaticopsida | hornwort | leafy liverwort | Marchantia polymorpha | nonvascular plant | scale moss

Liverwort In Webster's Dictionary

\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}.

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