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Definition of Liverworts

1. liverwort [n] - See also: liverwort

Lexicographical Neighbors of Liverworts

Literary usage of Liverworts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Botany, with Agricultural Applications by John Nathan Martin (1920)
"liverworts The liverworts are thought to be the group that first acquired the land habit, for, as a group, they are less complex than the Mosses and are ..."

2. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"Mosses and liverworts as Links Between the Algae and the Higher ... The plants known as liverworts and mosses constitute a group intermediate between the ..."

3. Plant Life and Plant Uses: An Elementary Textbook, a Foundation for the by John Gaylord Coulter (1913)
"The other division is the liverworts. The liverworts are simpler than the mosses and we will ... liverworts. — These plants grow where it is damp and shady. ..."

4. Botany for Agricultural Students by John Nathan Martin (1919)
"liverworts The liverworts are thought to be the group that first acquired the land habit, for, as a group, they are less complex than the Mosses and are ..."

5. An Introduction to Structural Botany by Dukinfield Henry Scott (1904)
"It includes two great Classes, the true Mosses and the liverworts. ... The liverworts, perhaps less generally known to those who are not botanists, ..."

6. Practical Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Otis William Caldwell (1911)
"CHAPTER XVI MOSSES AND liverworts (BRYOPHYTES) 241. Introductory statement. ... This flowering plant should not be confused with the true liverworts. ..."

7. Elementary Botany by George Francis Atkinson (1898)
"Nutrition of liverworts.—In many of the plants termed liverworts the vegetative part of the plant is a thin, flattened, more or less elongated green body ..."

8. General Botany for Universities and Colleges by Hiram Delos Densmore (1920)
"In the liverworts, or Hepaticae, the plant body is termed a ... The mosses (musci) are more highly organized than the liverworts and have stem and leaves ..."

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