hepatica

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: he=pat=i=ca

CIDE DICTIONARY

hepatica, n. [NL. See Hepatic. So called in allusion to the shape of the lobed leaves or fronds.].

•  A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup.  [1913 Webster]
•  Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticæ; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticæ, in the Supplement.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hepatica, n. any plant of the genus Hepatica, with reddish-brown lobed leaves resembling the liver.

Etymology

med.L fem. of hepaticus: see HEPATIC