liverwort Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses
    hepatic.

WordNet

Liv"er*wort` noun
Definitions
(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 1913