pleurocarpous Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective (of mosses) having the archegonia on short lateral branches

WordNet

Pleu`ro*car"pic, Pleu`ro*car"pous adjective (Also<
  • Pleurocarpic
  • Pleurocarpous
)
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) Side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to acrocarpous.

Webster 1913