Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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}.