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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Gr. [GREEK] extreme, highest + [GREEK] fruit.]

(Bot.)

(a)

Having a terminal fructification; having the fruit at the end of the stalk.

(b)

Having the fruit stalks at the end of a leafy stem, as in certain mosses.

acrocarpous ‎(comparative more acrocarpous, superlative most acrocarpous)

(botany) Developing the archegonium on the summit of the primary stem; fruiting at tips, in the manner of mosses.