AllWords.com Home
English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search

 
  
Your Query of 'liverwort' Resulted in 1 Matches
Displaying Items 1 through 1
Definitions
liverwort
noun 
  1. A 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.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: levermos
  • German: Lebermoos
  • French: hépatique
  • Spanish: hepí¡tica
Etymology: From liver + wort "plant", from the belief that some species looked like livers and were useful for treating the liver medicinally.

     
 
  

 Find:
  Words Starting With:
  Words Ending With:
  Words Containing:
  Words That Match:

 
 Translate Into:
  
Dutch   French   German
  
Italian   Spanish

Google
 

Browse the Dictionary
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

 
  green quotes and commentary

Dictionary content provided from Wiktionary.org under the GNU Free Documentation License
Allwords Copyright 1998-2008 Allsites LLC. All rights reserved.