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Thesaurus: pleurocarpous

Side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to acrocarpous.

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  1. a. Side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to acrocarpous.
  2. adj. (of mosses) having the archegonia on short lateral branches
  3. Side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to Ant: acrocarpous.
  4. a (of mosses) having the archegonia on short lateral branches