liverwort

Other forms of liverwort

plural

liverworts·

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 liverwort

What does liverwort mean?

liverwort means "any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses".

How many syllables are in liverwort?

liverwort has 3 syllables: liv-er-wort. The stress falls on "liv". In IPA it is /ˈlɪvɚwɚt/.

What is another word for liverwort?

Close synonyms include hepatic. 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 liverwort a common word?

liverwort 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.