Sessile

What do we mean by sessile?

Permanently attached or fixed; not free-moving. adjective

Stalkless and attached directly at the base. adjective

In botany, attached without any sensible projecting support; sitting directly on the body to which it belongs without a support; attached by the base: as, a sessile leaf, one issuing directly from the main stem or branch without a petiole or footstalk; a sessile flower, one having no peduncle; a sessile stigma, one without a style, as in the poppy.

In zoöl. and anatomy:

Seated flat or low; fixed by a broad base; not stalked or pedunculated.

Fixed; not free; sedentary.

Specifically, in Crustacea: Having no peduncle, as a cirriped; belonging to the Sessilia. Having no stalk or ophthalmite, as an eye.

In conchology, having no stalk or ommatophore, as an eye.

In entomology, not petiolate, as an abdomen.

In Hydroida, not detachable or separable, as a gonophore.

Attached without any sensible projecting support. adjective

Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk. adjective

Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached. adjective

Permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; “an attached oyster” adjective

Attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk. adjective

Attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk adjective

Permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about adjective

Permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about.

Attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; stalkless.

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Words that are spelled similarly to sessile:
sessile, sensile, sessil.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word sessile:
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Words that rhyme with sessile:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe sessile:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective sessile:
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Consonant match to sessile:
cecil, scissel, scissile, sisel, cecile, sesspool, sissel, scissil, c cell, c sol, cease all, cissell, see cell, si cell, si celle, si sol, sie soll.

Words that sound like sessile:
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