sessile

1. a. Attached without any sensible projecting support. Source: opted

2. a. Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom. Source: opted

3. a. Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached. Source: opted

4. adj. permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about Source: wordnet

5. adj. attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

7. Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without apetiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom. Source: adambom

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 Source: ecdict

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