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: he-pa-ti-ca. The stress falls on "pa".

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.