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sessile
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective sessile has 2 senses
- sessile(a = adj.all) Array - permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; "sessile marine animals and plants" Antonym: vagile
- sessile(a = adj.all) stalkless - attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; "sessile flowers"; "the shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate" Antonym: pedunculate
CIDE DICTIONARY
sessile, a. [L. sessilis low, dwarf, from sedere, sessum, to sit: cf. F. sessile.].
- Attached without any sensible projecting support. [1913 Webster]
- Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom. [1913 Webster]
- Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sessile, adj.
1 Bot. & Zool. (of a flower, leaf, eye, etc.) attached directly by its base without a stalk or peduncle.
2 fixed in one position; immobile.
1 Bot. & Zool. (of a flower, leaf, eye, etc.) attached directly by its base without a stalk or peduncle.
2 fixed in one position; immobile.
Idiom
sessile oak = DURMAST.
Etymology
L sessilis f. sedere sess- sit
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