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}.

Source : WordNet®

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