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leafy liverwort

leafy liverwort noun: any of numerous species of liverwort plant belonging to the order Jungermanniales.

leafy liverwort: any of numerous species of liverwort plant belonging to the order Jungermanniales
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Noun

leafy liverwort (plural leafy liverworts)

  1. Any of numerous species of liverwort plant belonging to the order Jungermanniales.
    • […]the inner layer (of nearly equally large cells) lacks the regular semiannular or annular thickenings of most other leafy liverworts[…]1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 6

Forms of leafy liverwort

pluralleafy liverworts

Questions about leafy liverwort

What does leafy liverwort mean?
Leafy liverwort means any of numerous species of liverwort plant belonging to the order Jungermanniales.
What part of speech is leafy liverwort?
Leafy liverwort is a noun.
What is the plural of leafy liverwort?
The plural of leafy liverwort is leafy liverworts.

Words near leafy liverwort in the dictionary

  1. leafworms
  2. leafy
  3. leafy goosefoot
  4. leafy goosefoots
  5. leafy greens
  6. leafy liverwort
  7. leafy liverworts
  8. leafy sea dragon
  9. leafy sea dragons
  10. leafy seadragon
  11. leafy spurge

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