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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

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



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pleurocarpous
    adj 1: (of mosses) having the archegonia on short lateral
           branches [ant: acrocarpous]