sessile

IPA: sˈɛsʌɫ

adjective

  • (zoology) Permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about.
  • (botany) Attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; stalkless.
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Examples of "sessile" in Sentences

  • Leaves are coriaceous and sessile.
  • Leaves are sessile and coriaceous.
  • Leaves are chartaceous and sessile.
  • Catkins are sessile and usually bracteate.
  • Carpels thick walled, sessile or sub sessile.
  • If no stalk is present it is said to be sessile.
  • It is a sessile marine or freshwater invertebrate.
  • The ovary is mostly sessile and has nectary glands.
  • They have sessile flowers with the tepals fused at the base, without nectary.

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