noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Received-Pronunciation:/ˈlɪv.ə.wɜːt/
US:/ˈlɪv.ɚ.wɝːt/
US:/ˈlɪv.ɚ.wɔːɹt/
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noun
Meaning 1
A type of bryophyte with a leafy stem or leafless thallus characterized by a dominant gametophyte stage and a lack of stomata on the sporophyte stage of the life cycle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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2000 — Barbara Crandall-Stotler & Raymond E. Stotler, "Morphology and classification of the Marchantiophyta". pages 21-70 in A. Jonathan Shaw & Bernard Goffinet (Eds.), Bryophyte Biology, page 21. Like other bryophytes, liverworts are small, herbaceous plants of terrestrial ecosystems.
From Middle English lyverwort, liverwort, from Old English liferwyrt, equivalent to liver + wort, from the belief that some species looked like livers and were useful for treating the liver medicinally.
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