Definitions for: Liverwort

[n] any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

See Also: bryophyte, class Hepaticae, class Hepaticopsida, hepatica, Hepaticae, Hepaticopsida, hornwort, leafy liverwort, Marchantia polymorpha, nonvascular plant, scale moss

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