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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
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hepatica1
Example Sentences
“There are buds on the hepaticas—just starting,” she said.
The slope is retained by logs; rocks; steps; and plantings of ornamental grasses and ground covers like ferns, cyclamen, hepaticas and native trillium.
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.
Once he found a hepatica bud the last day of February ...
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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