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Definition of Hepatica
1. Noun. 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.
Group relationships: Genus Hepatica
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
2. Noun. A common liverwort.
Generic synonyms: Hepatic, Liverwort
Group relationships: Genus Marchantia, Marchantia
Definition of Hepatica
1. n. A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup.
Definition of Hepatica
1. Noun. Any of the herbaceous plants in the genus ''Hepatica'' of the buttercup family, notably the common hepatica. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hepatica
1. a perennial herb [n -CAS or -CAE]
Medical Definition of Hepatica
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Origin: NL. See Hepatic. So called in allusion to the shape of the lobed leaves or fronds.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hepatica
Literary usage of Hepatica
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"A genus of about 4 species, natives of the north temperate 2one. Only the following
are known from North America. Type species: Anemone hepatica L. Lobes of ..."
2. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"But the hepatica does not care what names the wise men give to the parts of its
... We seek the hepatica in its own haunts, because there is a longing for ..."
3. Nostrums and Quackery: Articles on the Nostrum Evil and Quackery Reprinted by American Medical Association, Arthur Joseph Cramp (1912)
"SAL hepatica This wonderful mixture, according to the advertisements, is "a
combination of the tonic, alterative and laxative salts similar to the ..."
4. Flora Domestica, Or, The Portable Flower-garden: With Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent, Leigh Hunt (1831)
"THE hepatica is a Swiss species of the anemone : there are many varieties, ...
Some roots of the Double Blue hepatica being sent from a garden in ..."
5. The Animal Parasites of Man: A Handbook for Students and Medical Men by Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun, Pauline Falcke, Louis Westenra Sambon, Frederick Vincent Theobald (1908)
"... length) in the opaque lens of an old woman.1 The fact that Ammon found that
the intestinal caeca FIG. 88.—Young Fasciola hepatica, soon after travelling ..."
6. Nostrums and Quackery: Articles on the Nostrum Evil and Quackery, Reprinted by American Medical Association (1912)
"SAL hepatica This wonderful mixture, according to the advertisements, is "a
combination of the tonic, alterative and laxative salts similar to the ..."
7. All the Year Round: A Nature Reader by Frances Lucia Strong, Martha Allen Lane (1896)
"Miss hepatica to her nurse to be cared for and watched whil, Miss hepatica slept
all winter. ... In the spring, Miss hepatica was awakened by her playmate, ..."
8. Rural Affairs by John Jacob Thomas (1875)
"The engravings represent them all reduced one-half the natural diameter : hepatica
TRILOBA, (fig. 35,) sometimes called liverwort, is one of the very ..."
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