hepatica

See also: Hepatica, hepática, and hepàtica

English

Hepatica nobilis flowers

Etymology

See hepatic.

Noun

hepatica (plural hepaticas)

1. Any of the herbaceous plants in the genus Hepatica of the buttercup family, notably the common hepatica.
   • 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 281:

     Tufts of primroses grew under the still leafless trees; the hepatica had succeeded the snowdrop.

Derived terms

• round-lobed hepatica

Translations

plant in the genus Hepatica

• Bulgarian: гълъбови очички m pl (gǎlǎbovi očički)
• Finnish: sinivuokko (fi)
• Romanian: crucea-voinicului (ro) f, trei-răi (ro)
• Spanish: hepática (es) f

Noun

hepatica pl (plural only)

1. (medicine, obsolete) Medicines to treat the liver.

References

• hepatica on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• hepatica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• “hepatica”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “hepatica”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• apachite

Latin

Adjective

hēpatica

1. inflection of hēpaticus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

hēpaticā

1. ablative feminine singular of hēpaticus