hepatica

Other forms of hepatica

plural

hepaticas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hepatica

What does hepatica mean?

hepatica means "any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having three-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring; of moist and mossy subalpine woodland areas of north temperate regions". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hepatica?

hepatica has 4 syllables and divides as he-pa-ti-ca under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for hepatica?

Close synonyms include liverleaf, Marchantia polymorpha. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hepatica a common word?

hepatica is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.