liverwort

n. 叶苔 [医] 苔类植物, 地钱

发音

UK /ˈlɪv.ə.wɜːt/
US /ˈlɪv.ɚ.wɝːt/
US /ˈlɪv.ɚ.wɔːɹt/

词形变化

liverworts 复数 liverworts

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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.

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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.

    , Clevea

  2. 2.

    A common flowering perennial herb of northern woodlands, Hepatica nobilis (syn. Anemone hepatica), used in traditional European herbal medicine.

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词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

hepatic

上位词 2

bryophyte non-vascular plant

下位词 3

hepatica hornwort leafy liverwort

相关短语

leafy liverwort 叶状地线

词源

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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