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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