Acrocarpous: Definition and part of speech

Acrocarpous

  1. a. Having the fruit stalks at the end of a leafy stem, as in certain mosses.
  2. a. Having a terminal fructification; having the fruit at the end of the stalk.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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