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A ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups.

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  1. n. A ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups.
  2. n. A flowerless plant (Marchantia polymorpha), having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond.
  3. n. any of class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/numerous">numerous small green class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/nonvascular">nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses
  4. 1. A ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups. 2. A flowerless plant (Marchantia polymorpha), having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond. Note: From this plant many others of the same order (Hepaticæ) have been vaguely called liverworts, esp. those of the tribe Marchantiaceæ. See Illust. of Hepatica.
  5. n. any of class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/numerous">numerous small green class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/nonvascular">nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses