hepatic(n = noun.plant)liverwort - any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses;
Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases. [1913 Webster]
Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar. [1913 Webster]
Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticæ, or scale mosses and liverworts. [1913 Webster]
Hepatic duct(Anat.), any biliary duct; esp., the duct, or one of the ducts, which carries the bile from the liver to the cystic and common bile ducts. See Illust., under Digestive. -- Hepatic gas(Old Chem.), sulphureted hydrogen gas. -- Hepatic mercurial ore, orHepatic cinnabar. See under Cinnabar.