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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having three- lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring; of moist and mossy subalpine woodland areas of north temperate regions [syn: hepatica, liverleaf]
2: a common liverwort [syn: hepatica, Marchantia polymorpha]
Merriam Webster's
noun Etymology: New Latin, from Medieval Latin, liverwort, from Latin, feminine of hepaticus Date: 1578 any of a genus (Hepatica) of herbs of the buttercup family with lobed leaves and delicate flowers
Oxford Reference Dictionary
n. any plant of the genus Hepatica, with reddish-brown lobed leaves resembling the liver. Etymology: med.L fem. of hepaticus: see HEPATIC
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
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.] 1. (Bot.) A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup. 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.
