Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having the fruit at the end or top of the primary axis: applied to mosses.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a terminal fructification; having the fruit at the end of the stalk.
- adjective Having the fruit stalks at the end of a leafy stem, as in certain mosses.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Developing the
archegonium on thesummit of the primary stem;fruiting at tips, in the manner ofmosses .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of mosses) having the archegonia at the top of the stem
Etymologies
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acro- + -carpous
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