Pleurocarpous

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pleurocarpic \Pleu`ro*car"pic\, Pleurocarpous
  \Pleu`ro*car"pous\, a. (Bot.)
     Side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which the
     pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; --
     opposed to {acrocarpous}.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pleurocarpous
       adj : (of mosses) having the archegonia on short lateral branches
             [ant: {acrocarpous}]