Liv"er*wort` (?), n. Bot.
1.
A ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups.
2.
A flowerless plant (Marchantia polymorpha), having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond.
⇒ From this plant many others of the same order (Hepaticae) have been vaguely called liverworts, esp. those of the tribe Marchantiaceae. See Illust. of Hepatica.
© Webster 1913.