What is "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.

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

adj. (of mosses) having the archegonia on short lateral branches [ant: acrocarpous]