LIVERWORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liverwort mean? 

• LIVERWORT (noun)
  The noun LIVERWORT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: LIVERWORT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIVERWORT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

hepatic; liverwort

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

bryophyte; nonvascular plant (any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "liverwort"):

hornwort (liverworts with slender hornlike capsules)

leafy liverwort; scale moss (moss-like liverwort with tiny scalelike leaves; usually epiphytic)

hepatica; Marchantia polymorpha (a common liverwort)

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

class Hepaticae; class Hepaticopsida; Hepaticae; Hepaticopsida (liverworts: comprises orders Anthocerotales; Jungermanniales; Marchantiales; Sphaerocarpales)

 Context examples 

However, this was the first time that these genes had been functionally linked to pathogen defence strategies in liverworts.

(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)

It belongs to the division Bryophyta, which includes liverwort, and moss.

(Non-Vascular Plant, NCI Thesaurus)

Very distantly-related plants, such as non-flowering liverworts that are believed to resemble some of the first land plants, are often overlooked.

(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)

Bioinformatics expert identified a subset of one-to-one corresponding genes (single-copy orthologs) in the liverwort and wild tobacco and analysed their level of activity during the infection.

(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)

We produced liverwort plants with mosaic pigment patterns – resembling military camouflage fatigues – that allowed us to compare pathogen resistance in pigmented and non-pigmented areas of the same plant and found the pigment provided some resistance to pathogen infection.

(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)

Researchers from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge compared how two distantly related plants – a common liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha) and a flowering plant, wild tobacco (Nicotiana benthamiana) – defend themselves against an aggressive pathogen (Phytophthora palmivora).

(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)

Pathogen zoospores germinate on the surface of liverworts and eventually colonise the liverwort tissues, but in some areas we saw an accumulation of a purple/red pigment in the liverwort tissues where the pathogen was rarely detected, said Dr Philip Carella, lead author of the study.

(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)