Definition of "liverwort" [liv•er•wort]

• Any of numerous small, green, nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticae within the division Bryophyta. (noun)

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• "This is modified by the prevailing high humidity, giving peaty soils and a wide distribution of oceanic plants such as liverwort Frullania teneriffae, by the effect of salt spray even hundreds of meters inland, resulting in Plantago-dominated swards on cliff tops, and by the fertilizing effects of vast numbers of nesting seabirds which create a rich turf."
• "The night lit up as the neutron bomb detonated, wiping away the rare liverwort and its jungle home."
• "The liverwort was reported less than ten kilometers from here."