liverwort

/liv-er-wurt, -wawrt/US // ˈlɪv ərˌwɜrt, -ˌwɔrt //UK // (ˈlɪvəˌwɜːt) //

肝草,肝脏,肝癌,肝脏植物

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any mosslike plant of the class Hepaticae, growing chiefly on damp ground, rocks, or on tree trunks and helping the decay of logs and the disintegration of rocks.

Others assert for the first part of the name that it comes from the liverwort plant, which grew abundantly in the neighbourhood.
Half-starved children were selling little bunches of liverwort in the streets.
Instead of directly forming a fern-plantlet, the spore grows first into a body which closely resembles a small Liverwort.
The first hepaticas (liverwort) that I saw this year were picked the first day of March.
The structure of the stem though simple is more complicated than in any liverwort.