1. Adjective
Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases.
2. Adjective
Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar.
3. Adjective
Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticae, or scale mosses and liverworts.
4. Noun
any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses
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