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UK
/hɛpˈætɪkɐ/
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NOUN
- any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having three-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring; of moist and mossy subalpine woodland areas of north temperate regions
- a common liverwort
How To Use hepatica In A Sentence
- On this day, the first hepatica buds were poking through the leaf mat, and some were opening into startlingly light-blue flowers.
- Wildflowers like bloodroot, Trillium and Hepatica also bloom in late winter.
- The parasite (fasciola hepatica) uses a snail called lymnea truncatula as intermediate host for its development. Unalog
- The real gemmae of the Hepaticae puts the question of gemmae out of doubt. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
- Garlic mustard shares the same territory and season as bloodroot, Dutchman's breeches, spring-beauty, wild ginger, hepaticas, toothworts, trilliums, and others that suffer at its hands - or roots.
- Between the Hepaticae, Anthocerotales, Sphagnales and Musci, there are no connecting forms known, and it must be left as an open question whether the Bryophyta are a monophyletic or polyphyletic group. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
- Other wildflowers are common Solomon's seal, false Solomon's seal, two kinds of golden bellworts, hepatica, wild columbine, monkshood, bloodroot, toothwort, and wild ginger.
- It competes with native wildflowers that also flower in the spring, like spring beauty, wild ginger, bloodroot, Dutchman's breeches, hepatica, toothworts, and trilliums, stealing light, moisture, nutrients, soil and space.
- It gathered flowers from the forest floor as they walked: yellow celandine and primrose, pale anemone, pink-veined wood sorrel, purple hepatica, lilac and plum violets.
- The CT shows that this patient is referred for lipoatrophy of thigh and cnemis, increased visceral fat, adiposis hepatica.