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Definition of Acrocarpous
1. Adjective. (of mosses) having the archegonia at the top of the stem.
Definition of Acrocarpous
1. a. Having a terminal fructification; having the fruit at the end of the stalk.
Definition of Acrocarpous
1. Adjective. (botany) Developing the archegonium on the summit of the primary stem; fruiting at tips, in the manner of mosses. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Acrocarpous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Acrocarpous
Literary usage of Acrocarpous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1851)
"It is only such mosses as these that are strictly acrocarpous. In Funaria
hygrometrica, which in its mode of growth represents most of the so-called ..."
2. Mosses with a Hand-lens: A Non-technical Handbook of the More Common and by Abel Joel Grout (1905)
"acrocarpous, having the sporophyte terminal on a stem or ordinary branch.
acrocarpous mosses can usually be easily distinguished by the erect habit, ..."
3. The Micrographic Dictionary: A Guide to the Examination and Investigation of by John William Griffith, Arthur Henfrey (1883)
"... acrocarpous Mosses, branching by innovations, or with the fertile summits
several times divided. Leaves lanceolate or awl-shaped, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In many acrocarpous Mosses the stalk dies after fructification, ... In those
acrocarpous Mosses which are perennial the further development U taken up by a ..."
5. The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns (Archegoniatae) by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1905)
"How far the division into acrocarpous and pi euro ... forms may have originated
independently from acrocarpous ones. ..."
6. Mosses with Hand-lens and Microscope: A Non-technical Hand-book of the More by Abel Joel Grout (1903)
"acrocarpous mosses can usually be easily distinguished by the erect habit, ...
I.) The old sporophyte often seems lateral in acrocarpous mosses, ..."
7. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1916)
"If from the first, then the specimen belongs to the acrocarpous group of mosses;
if from the second then it belongs to the ..."
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