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Definition of Pleurocarpous moss
1. Noun. A moss having the archegonium or antheridium on a short side branch rather than the main stalk.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleurocarpous Moss
Literary usage of Pleurocarpous moss
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mosses with Hand-lens and Microscope: A Non-technical Hand-book of the More by Abel Joel Grout (1903)
"... stems slender, red, sometimes partially reclining at base; by reason of this
and the abundant branching sometimes taken for a pleurocarpous moss. ..."
2. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"and, in other cases, independently of the development of reproductive organs, as
in Hylocomium splendens, a pleurocarpous Moss, the shoots of which grow for ..."
3. Mosses with Hand-lens and Microscope: A Non-technical Hand-book of the More by Abel Joel Grout (1903)
"... stems slender, red, sometimes partially reclining at base; by reason of this
and the abundant branching sometimes taken for a pleurocarpous moss. ..."
4. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"and, in other cases, independently of the development of reproductive organs, as
in Hylocomium splendens, a pleurocarpous Moss, the shoots of which grow for ..."
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