meaning of sessile
1. Attached without any sensible projecting support.
2. Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.
3. Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.
4. attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; "sessile flowers"; "the shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a
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Related Words
sessile | sessile polyp | sessile trillium | sessile-eyed |
