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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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