单词 | water-liverwort |
释义 | > as lemmaswater-liverwort water-liverwort n. [ < water n. + liverwort n., apparently originally after Dutch water leverkruid (1554 in the passage translated in quot. 1578)] †(a) the water crowfoot, Ranunculus aquatilis (obsolete); (b) any of various liverworts (bryophytes) of damp or aquatic habitats; (in later use) spec. = crystalwort n. ΚΠ 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxxi. 106 Amongst the fleeting herbes there is also a certayne herbe which some call Water Lyverworte [Fr. Hepatique d'eaue, Du. water Levercruyt]. 1722 J. Miller Botanicum Officinale 228 Lichen petræus seu Hepatica fontana, Stone or Water-Liverwort. 1754 tr. A. Le Camus Abdeker i. xvi. 99 Take of..Water-Liverwort, Fumitory, Dodder, of each three Ounces. 1912 H. S. Pepoon Representative Plants 130 (heading) Water liverworts (Riccia fluitans). 1973 Aquarist & Pondkeeper Feb. 435/2 The finding of many specimens of the aquatic Oribatid mite, Hydrozetes lacustris on lesser duckweed..and crystalwort which is the water-liverwort, Riccia fluitans, in the South-East Pond on the common. < as lemmas |
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