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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... front and by the sound of various cascades, by which the winding stream is agreeably broken. Opposite to this seat the ground rises again in an easy concave to a kind of dripping fountain, where a small rill trickles down a rude niche of rock work through fern, liverwort, and aquatic weeds. . . The whole ...

— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers

... acutiloba—Liverwort, Heartleaf: Used for coughs either in tea or by chewing root. Those who dream of snakes drink a decoction of this herb and I[']nat[^u] Ga[']n'ka"snake tongue" (Camptosorus rhizophyllus or Walking Fern) to produce vomiting, after which the ...

— The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees • James Mooney

... in Loudoun are the rattlesnake root, Seneca snakeroot (also called Virginia snakeroot), many varieties of mint, liverwort, red-root, May apple, butterfly-weed, milk weed, thorough-stem, trumpet-weed, Indian-physic, lobelia inflata, and lobelia cardinalis, golden-rod, skunk-cabbage, frost-weed, hoar-hound, ...

— History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia • James W. Head

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