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n. Any of several woodland plants of the genus Hepatica, especially H. americana of eastern North America, having three-lobed leaves and white or lavender flowers. Also called liverleaf.

n. Any of the herbaceous plants in the genus Hepatica of the buttercup family, notably the common hepatica.

n. A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup.

n. Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticæ; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticæ, in the Supplement.

n. The liverleaf, Anemone Hepatica (Hepatica triloba). The old genus Hepatica of Dillenius may be regarded as a subgenus of Anemone.

n. Any liverwort; a cryptogamic plant of the family Hepaticœ.

n. a common liverwort

n. any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having three-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring; of moist and mossy subalpine woodland areas of north temperate regions

"Oh, but someone says, the hepatica is the first flower of spring; all the nature writers say so."

hepatic    liverwort    herbaceous plant    Herb   

scale moss    liverwort    hepaticæ   

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