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hepatica
[ hi-pat-i-kuh ]
noun
- any plant belonging to the genus Hepatica, of the buttercup family, having heart-shaped leaves and delicate purplish, pink, or white flowers.
hepatica
/ ɪˈæɪə /
noun
- any ranunculaceous woodland plant of the N temperate genus Hepatica, having three-lobed leaves and white, mauve, or pink flowers
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yvlog History and Origins
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of hepatica1
C16: from Medieval Latin: liverwort, from Latin ŧ貹پܲ of the liver
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“There are buds on the hepaticas—just starting,” she said.
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The slope is retained by logs; rocks; steps; and plantings of ornamental grasses and ground covers like ferns, cyclamen, hepaticas and native trillium.
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It has been known since at least 2006 that under experimental conditions, infection with F. hepatica lowers a cow's reaction to the skin test.
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Once he found a hepatica bud the last day of February ...
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I saw it go with the children to school in a single treasured blossom, or trailing the Sunday trippers in dropped sprays of hepatica and potentilla back from the Jersey shore.
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