"Hepatica" is a word in ENGLISH
A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to
Anemone; squirrel cup.
Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the
cryptogamous class Hepaticae; -- called also scale moss and liverwort.
See Hepaticae, in the Supplement.
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Read the complete definitionPertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticae, or scale mosses and liverworts.
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Read the complete definitionA ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups.
Read the complete definitionAn old name for mosses in the widest sense, including the true mosses and also hepaticae and sphagna.
Read the complete definitionA saclike involucre which incloses the young fruit in most hepatic mosses. See Illust. of Hepatica.
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