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hepatica

[ hi-pat-i-kuh ]

noun

  1. any plant belonging to the genus Hepatica, of the buttercup family, having heart-shaped leaves and delicate purplish, pink, or white flowers.


hepatica

/ hɪˈpætɪkə /

noun

  1. any ranunculaceous woodland plant of the N temperate genus Hepatica, having three-lobed leaves and white, mauve, or pink flowers
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hepatica1

1540–50; < Medieval Latin: liverwort, noun use of feminine of Latin hēpaticus hepatic
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hepatica1

C16: from Medieval Latin: liverwort, from Latin hēpaticus of the liver
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Example Sentences

“There are buds on the hepaticas—just starting,” she said.

The slope is retained by logs; rocks; steps; and plantings of ornamental grasses and ground covers like ferns, cyclamen, hepaticas and native trillium.

It has been known since at least 2006 that under experimental conditions, infection with F. hepatica lowers a cow's reaction to the skin test.

From BBC

Once he found a hepatica bud the last day of February ...

I saw it go with the children to school in a single treasured blossom, or trailing the Sunday trippers in dropped sprays of hepatica and potentilla back from the Jersey shore.

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