pleurocarpous

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English

Etymology

From pleuro- +‎ carpo- +‎ -ous.

Adjective

pleurocarpous (not comparable)

  1. (botany) Side-fruited; said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or capsules are from lateral archegonia.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pleurocarpous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)