Usually means: Moss with lateral, branching growth.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (pleurocarpous)

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

Similar:
pleurotoid, acrocarpous, carposporic, carposporous, deoperculate, cladanthous, carpellate, podocarpaceous, carposporangial, carpelloid, more...

Opposite:
acrocarpous, solitary, unbranched

Types:
moss, liverwort, hornwort, more...

Phrases:
pleurocarpous moss, more...

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Similar:
pleurotoid, acrocarpous, carposporic, carposporous, deoperculate, cladanthous, carpellate, podocarpaceous, carposporangial, carpelloid, more...

Opposite:
acrocarpous, solitary, unbranched

Types:
moss, liverwort, hornwort, more...

Phrases:
pleurocarpous moss, more...



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