PLEUROCARP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pleurocarp mean? 

• PLEUROCARP (noun)
  The noun PLEUROCARP has 1 sense:

1. a moss having the archegonium or antheridium on a short side branch rather than the main stalk

  Familiarity information: PLEUROCARP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLEUROCARP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A moss having the archegonium or antheridium on a short side branch rather than the main stalk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

pleurocarp; pleurocarpous moss

Hypernyms ("pleurocarp" is a kind of...):

moss (tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants)

Antonym:

acrocarp (a moss in which the main axis is terminated by the archegonium (and hence the capsule))

Derivation:

pleurocarpous ((of mosses) having the archegonia on short lateral branches)