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Meaning of 'sessile' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Sessile [ a.]
- Attached without any sensible projecting support.
- Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.
- Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.

Meaning of 'sessile' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . sessile [ a]
Meaning (1):
- attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk
Example in sentence:
  • sessile flowers;
  • the shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate
Meaning (2):
- permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about
Example in sentence:
  • sessile marine animals and plants

Nearby Words:

sesame sesamoid sesamoidal sesban sesqui- sesquialter sesquialtera sesquialteral sesquialterate sesquialterous

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