Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several woodland plants of the genus Hepatica of the buttercup family, especially H. americana of eastern North America, having three-lobed leaves and white or lavender flowers. Hepaticas are sometimes classified in the genus Anemone.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The liverleaf, Anemone Hepatica (Hepatica triloba). The old genus Hepatica of Dillenius may be regarded as a subgenus of Anemone.
- noun Any liverwort; a cryptogamic plant of the family Hepaticœ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup.
- noun (bot.) Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticæ; -- called also
scale moss andliverwort . SeeHepaticæ , in the Supplement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the herbaceous plants in the
genus Hepatica of thebuttercup family, notably thecommon hepatica .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a common liverwort
- 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Oh, but someone says, the hepatica is the first flower of spring; all the nature writers say so.
Some Spring Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905
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The hepatica is the first flower of the Canadian spring: it gladdens us with its tints of azure, pink, and white, early in April, soon after the snows have melted from the earth.
The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850
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Well, my dear, there are two harbingers of spring in this area, one is the trillium and the other is the hepatica.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011
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I bent to examine something peeking out from under dried grasses: a rare delicate hepatica.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011
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Labels: flowers, gardening, hepatica nobilis comments:
Soon Spring Bente Lilja Bye 2009
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I bent to examine something peeking out from under dried grasses: a rare delicate hepatica.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011
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Mom, did you know that the hepatica is one of the first flowers of spring?
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011
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Well, my dear, there are two harbingers of spring in this area, one is the trillium and the other is the hepatica.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011
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During one of my lectures, the question arose as to why beef is not prohibited, although a cow can be infected with the dangerous liver fluke Fasciola hepatica.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Mom, did you know that the hepatica is one of the first flowers of spring?
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011
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