Crossword clues for hepatica
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hepatica \He*pat"i*ca\, n.; pl. Hepatic[ae]. [NL. See Hepatic. So called in allusion to the shape of the lobed leaves or fronds.]
(Bot.) A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup.
(bot.) Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepatic[ae]; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepatic[ae], in the Supplement.
Wiktionary
n. Any of the herbaceous plants in the genus ''Hepatica'' of the buttercup family, notably the common hepatica.
WordNet
n. any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having 3-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring; of moist and mossy subalpine woodland areas of north temperate regions [syn: liverleaf]
a common liverwort [syn: Marchantia polymorpha]
Wikipedia
Hepatica (hepatica, liverleaf, or liverwort) is a genus of herbaceous perennials in the buttercup family, native to central and northern Europe, Asia and eastern North America. Some botanists include Hepatica within a wider interpretation of Anemone.
Usage examples of "hepatica".
Two days after Euroclydon, I found in the woods the hepatica-- earliest of wildwood flowers, evidently not intimidated by the wild work of the armies trampling over New England--daring to hold up its tender blossom.
Our chief reagents are green vitriol, sulfur, orpiment, and a large group of active salts, primary among them sal hepatica and sal ammoniac, though there are many others.
Between the Hepaticae, Anthocerotales, Sphagnales and Musci, there are no connecting forms known, and it must be left as an open question whether the Bryophyta are a monophyletic or polyphyletic group.
I would not say bouquets may be gathered in the depth of winter, but what will be equally cheering may be had in blow, such as the Bluet, Violet, Primrose, Christmas Rose, Crocus, Hepatica, Squills, Snowdrops, and other less known winter bloomers.
We may therefore leave it to the description of the several groups of Hepaticae and Musci to supplement the differences mentioned above and to bring out the exceptions which exist.
In structure and development they agree with other Hepaticae, though differences of detail exist.
Hepatica, examining the details of the tiny travelling workbag I always carry with me.
And they told him how they picked clothes-baskets full of the wild lily of the valley that grew upon the Boudry slopes, hepaticas, periwinkles, jonquils, blue and white violets, as well as countless anemones, and later, the big yellow marguerites.
It came from the bunch of violets, gentians, and hepaticas, already faded, that Mother had placed there days ago on his arrival.
The primroses and anemones had followed the hepaticas and periwinkles.
Here, in May, in the pool below the spring, the marsh marigolds had bloomed and the sloping hillsides had been covered with the pastel of hepaticas.