pleurocarpous moss

1. 1.

   a moss having the archegonium or antheridium on a short side branch rather than the main stalk

   Synonymspleurocarp

   Broadermoss

Questions about pleurocarpous moss

What does pleurocarpous moss mean?

pleurocarpous moss means "a moss having the archegonium or antheridium on a short side branch rather than the main stalk".

What is another word for pleurocarpous moss?

Close synonyms include pleurocarp. 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 pleurocarpous moss a common word?

pleurocarpous 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.