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pleurocarpous


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pleurocarpous 
  adj  :  (of  mosses)  having  the  archegonia  on  short  lateral  branches 
  [ant:  {acrocarpous}] 




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