hepatica

See also: Hepatica, hepática, and hepàtica

English

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.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “hepatica”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →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