Found 2 items, similar to pleurocarpous.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: pleurocarpous pleurocarpous adj : (of mosses) having the archegonia on short lateral branches [ant: acrocarpous]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Pleurocarpous 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]