liverwort noun. ['lɪvǝwǝ:t] LOE.
[from LIVER noun¹ + WORT noun¹, translating medieval Latin hepatica.]
1. Orig., the thalloid bryophyte Marchantia polymorpha, lobed like the liver. Now, any bryophyte of the class Hepaticae, with a capsule splitting open into four valves and either thalloid or mosslike (foliose) in form. LOE.

2. = HEPATICA 2. Now US. L16.

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