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
- Clover is a pair of leaves; the blossom is said to be "sessile" or seated on these leaves.
- Perhaps, Richard mused, the sessile is a recording device only, and is incapable of imagination.
- That alien face - it supposely has a "sessile" compound eye, by which it is meant - not on a stalk.
- Many ponds are seasonal, lasting just a couple of months (such as sessile pools) while lakes may exist for hundreds of years or more.
- They may be sessile, that is, the cup rests immediately on the ground or wood, or leaves, or they may possess a short, or rather long stalk.
- Serrated colorectal polyps include the subgroups hyperplastic polyps, sessile serrated polyps (also called sessile serrated adenomas), and serrated adenomas.
- Do legislators imagine that pedophiles are sessile creatures, like sea anemones or Venus fly-traps, and have to wait passively for their victims to come withreach?
- The ganglia had already finished migrating to three new positions, repeating the same spherical configuration each time, before Richard recognized that what was growing in the sessile was a manna melon.
- From these lateral stemmed species there is an easy transition to the stemless forms which are sessile, that is, the shelving forms where the pileus is itself attached to the trunk, or other object of support on which it grows.
- The term _sessilifolius_ has been given to this species of Cytisus, because the leaves are for the most part sessile, that is sit close to the branches, without any or very short footstalks; such they are at least on the flowering branches when the shrub is in blossom, but at the close of the summer they are no longer so, the leaves acquiring very evident footstalks.
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