MARCHANTIA POLYMORPHA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Marchantia polymorpha mean? 

• MARCHANTIA POLYMORPHA (noun)
  The noun MARCHANTIA POLYMORPHA has 1 sense:

1. a common liverwort

  Familiarity information: MARCHANTIA POLYMORPHA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARCHANTIA POLYMORPHA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A common liverwort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

hepatica; Marchantia polymorpha

Hypernyms ("Marchantia polymorpha" is a kind of...):

hepatic; liverwort (any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses)

Holonyms ("Marchantia polymorpha" is a member of...):

genus Marchantia; Marchantia (type genus of Marchantiaceae; liverworts that reproduce asexually by gemmae and have stalked antheridiophores)

 Context examples 

Researchers from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge compared how two distantly related plants – a common liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha) and a flowering plant, wild tobacco (Nicotiana benthamiana) – defend themselves against an aggressive pathogen (Phytophthora palmivora).

(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)