Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. 
 a moss having the archegonium or antheridium on a short side branch rather than the main stalk; 
[syn: pleurocarp, pleurocarpous moss]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pleurocarp \Pleu"ro*carp\, n. [Pleuro- + Gr. ? fruit.] (Bot.)
   Any pleurocarpic moss.
   [1913 Webster] Pleurocarpic
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pleurocarp
    n 1: a moss having the archegonium or antheridium on a short
         side branch rather than the main stalk [syn: pleurocarp,
         pleurocarpous moss] [ant: acrocarp, acrocarpous moss]