Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of plants of the class Hepaticœ, and type of the order Marchantiaceœ. M. polymorpha, the common liverwort, is the most widely diffused species. See
liverwort . - noun [lowercase] A plant of this genus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun The type genus of
Marchantiaceae ; liverworts that reproduce asexually by gemmae and have stalked antheridiophores.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of Marchantiaceae; liverworts that reproduce asexually by gemmae and have stalked antheridiophores
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Examples
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There must be marchantia under the spray of the one, and possibly dittany in the peat of the other.
Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy Edmund Gosse 1888
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Amabel was peevish with weariness; her bundles were sadly in the way, and at every step a cup-moss or marchantia dropped out, and Amabel insisted upon its being picked up.
Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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Amsterdam, tufts of lycopodium and marchantia have been seen in places where the heat of the soil was far greater: such is the effect of an habitual stimulus on the organs of plants.
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At the island of Amsterdam, tufts of lycopodium and marchantia have been seen in places where the heat of the soil was far greater: such is the effect of an habitual stimulus on the organs of plants.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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