liverwort

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: liv=er=wort

CIDE DICTIONARY

liverwort, n. 

•  A ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups.  [1913 Webster]
•  A flowerless plant (Marchantia polymorpha), having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond.  [1913 Webster]

  " From this plant many others of the same order (Hepaticæ) have been vaguely called liverworts, esp. those of the tribe Marchantiaceæ. See Illust. of Hepatica."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

liverwort, n. any small leafy or thalloid bryophyte of the class Hepaticae, of which some have liver-shaped parts.