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liverwort
n.
moss-like plant which grows in damp areas
Marchantiophyta
The
Marchantiophyta are a division of
non-vascular bryophyte land plants commonly referred to as
hepatics or
liverworts. Like other bryophytes, they have a
gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry only a single set of genetic information.
liverwort
Noun
1. any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses
(hypernym) bryophyte, nonvascular plant
(hyponym) hornwort
(member-holonym) Hepaticopsida, class Hepaticopsida, Hepaticae, class Hepaticae
liverwort
nm.
liverwort, moss-like plant which grows in damp areas
Liverwort
(n.)
A ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups.
(n.)
A flowerless plant (Marchantia polymorpha), having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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