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Pleurocarpous

Webster's Dictionary

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

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pleurocarpous'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/pleurocarpous.html. 1828.