hepatica

See hepatic.

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.

• round-lobed hepatica

hepatica pl (plural only)

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

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

• apachite

hēpatica

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

hēpaticā

1. ablative feminine singular of hēpaticus