Hypertext Webster Gateway: "liverwort"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Liverwort \Liv"er*wort`\, n. (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.
Note: From this plant many others of the same order
({Hepatic[ae]}) have been vaguely called liverworts,
esp. those of the tribe {Marchantiace[ae]}. See Illust.
of {Hepatica}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hepatica \He*pat"i*ca\, n.; pl. {Hepatic[ae]}. [NL. See
{Hepatic}. So called in allusion to the shape of the lobed
leaves or fronds.]
1. (Bot.) A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to
Anemone; squirrel cup.
2. (bot.) Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the
cryptogamous class Hepatic[ae]; -- called also {scale
moss} and {liverwort}. See {Hepatic[ae]}, in the
Supplement.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
liverwort
n : any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class
Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green
seaweeds or leafy mosses
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