liverwort

Etymology
From, , from , equivalent to , from the belief that some species looked like livers and were useful for treating the liver medicinally.

Noun

 * 1) A type of bryophyte with a leafy stem or leafless thallus characterized by a dominant gametophyte stage and a lack of stomata on the sporophyte stage of the life cycle.
 * 2) * 2000 — Barbara Crandall-Stotler & Raymond E. Stotler, "Morphology and classification of the Marchantiophyta". pages 21-70 in A. Jonathan Shaw & Bernard Goffinet (Eds.), Bryophyte Biology, page 21.
 * Like other bryophytes, liverworts are small, herbaceous plants of terrestrial ecosystems.
 * 1) A common flowering perennial herb of northern woodlands,  (syn. ), used in traditional European herbal medicine.
 * Like other bryophytes, liverworts are small, herbaceous plants of terrestrial ecosystems.
 * 1) A common flowering perennial herb of northern woodlands,  (syn. ), used in traditional European herbal medicine.

Derived terms

 * leafy liverwort

Related terms

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Translations

 * Afrikaans: lewermos
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: játrovka
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: hepatiko
 * Finnish: maksasammal
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * German: Lebermoos
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: λειχήν
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: aelus
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 苔植物門
 * Manx: aane ushtey
 * Norwegian: levermose
 * Polish: wątrobowiec
 * Portuguese: hepática
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: levermossa
 * Welsh: llysiau'r afu, afuad