Thesaurus: sessile

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1. a. Attached without any sensible projecting support.
2. a. Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.
3. a. Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.
4. adj. permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about
5. adj. attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk
6. 1. Attached without any sensible projecting support. 2. (Bot.) Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom. 3. (Zoöl.) Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.
7. Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without apetiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.
8. j:100 a. permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about a. attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk