liverwort

Other forms: liverworts

Definitions of liverwort

1. noun

   any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses
   synonyms: hepatic

   types:

   hornwort

   liverworts with slender hornlike capsules

   leafy liverwort, scale moss

   moss-like liverwort with tiny scalelike leaves; usually epiphytic

   Marchantia polymorpha, hepatica

   a common liverwort

   type of:

   bryophyte, nonvascular plant

   any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta