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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Liv·er·wort n. Bot.
 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.
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