acrocarpous moss

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsacrocarp

   Broadermoss

Questions about acrocarpous moss

What does acrocarpous moss mean?

acrocarpous moss means "a moss in which the main axis is terminated by the archegonium (and hence the capsule)".

What is another word for acrocarpous moss?

Close synonyms include acrocarp. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acrocarpous moss a common word?

acrocarpous moss is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.