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Webster 1913 Edition
Liverwort
Liv′er-wortˊ
,Noun.
(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. ☞ From this plant many others of the same order (
Hepaticæ
) have been vaguely called liverworts, esp. those of the tribe Marchantiaceæ
. See Illust. of Hepatica
. Webster 1828 Edition
Liverwort
LIV'ERWORT
,Noun.
Definition 2024
liverwort
liverwort
English
A liverwort
Noun
liverwort (plural liverworts)
- A type of bryophyte (includes mosses, liverworts, and hornworts) with a leafy stem or leafless thallus characterized by a dominant gametophyte stage and a lack of stomata on the sporophyte stage of the life cycle.
- 1929 — Shiv Ram Kashyap, Liverworts of the Western Himalayas and the Panjab Plain, vol. I, p. 1.
- The liverworts are either thallose, without any differentiation into stem and leaves, or leafy.
- 1985 — W. B. Schofield, Introduction to Bryology, p. 135
- Since the thallus of some liverworts resembled a liver, such plants were considered useful in making a concoction that would aid in curing liver ailments. Hence the name "liver-plant," or liverwort. Unfortunately, there is no evidence that liverworts possess curative properties.
- 2000 — Barbara Crandall-Stotler & Raymond E. Stotler, "Morphology and classification of the Marchantiophyta". pages 21-70 in A. Jonathan Shaw & Bernard Goffinet (Eds.), Bryophyte Biology, page 21.
- Like other bryophytes, liverworts are small, herbaceous plants of terrestrial ecosystems.
- 1929 — Shiv Ram Kashyap, Liverworts of the Western Himalayas and the Panjab Plain, vol. I, p. 1.
Synonyms
Translations
bryophyte with a leafy stem
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