'Pleurocarpous' definitions:
Definition of 'pleurocarpous'
(from WordNet)
adjective
(of mosses) having the archegonia on short lateral branches [ant: acrocarpous]
Definition of 'Pleurocarpous'
From: 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]