Definition of Hepateca
||He*pat"i*ca (?), n.; pl.
Hepaticæ (#). [NL. See Hepatic. So
called in allusion to the shape of the lobed leaves or fronds.]
1. (Bot.) A genus of pretty spring
flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup.
2. (bot.) Any plant, usually
procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class
Hepaticæ; -- called also scale moss and
liverwort. See Hepaticæ, in the
Supplement.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- a genus of herbaceous perennial plants belonging to the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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