HEPATICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hepatica mean? 

• HEPATICA (noun)
  The noun HEPATICA has 2 senses:

1. 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

2. a common liverwort

  Familiarity information: HEPATICA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEPATICA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

hepatica; liverleaf

Hypernyms ("hepatica" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Holonyms ("hepatica" is a member of...):

genus Hepatica (small genus of perennial herbs of north temperate regions; allied to genus Anemone)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A common liverwort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

hepatica; Marchantia polymorpha

Hypernyms ("hepatica" is a kind of...):

hepatic; liverwort (any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses)

Holonyms ("hepatica" is a member of...):

genus Marchantia; Marchantia (type genus of Marchantiaceae; liverworts that reproduce asexually by gemmae and have stalked antheridiophores)