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Webster 1913 Edition

Acrocarpous

Acˊro-car′pous

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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.