stalkless
IPA: stˈɔkɫʌs
adjective
- Having no stalk; sessile.
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Examples of "stalkless" in Sentences
- LEAVES: Almost stalkless, divided into two almost round leaflets.
- LEAVES: Broadly elliptic, glossy green, opposite, shortly stalked or stalkless.
- The stalkless leaflets are arranged in pairs numbering from 12 to 32 (Little and Wadsworth 1989).!
- The fruit is fleshy, stalkless, ovoid or nearly spherical, 5 - 6 millimeters in length and purple when mature.
- On the rocks rest stalkless mushrooms, gills uppermost, which blossom as pom-pom chrysanthemums; rough nodules, boat — and canoe-shaped dishes of coral.
- The nearer ground was strewn with glaciated boulders and supported nothing but a stunted Alpine vegetation of compact clustering stems and stalkless flowers.
- Perhaps because of that resemblance, scientists had always assumed that sea lilies stayed rooted instead of moving around like their stalkless relatives, the feather stars.
- There was no lawn, but instead a shrubbery of native trees and bushes — gold mohur trees like vast umbrellas of blood-red bloom, frangipanis with creamy, stalkless flowers, purple bougainvillea, scarlet hibiscus and the pink
- Therefore, the ecoregion boasts the record for a plant growing at the highest elevation in the world: Arenaria bryophylla, a small, dense, tufted cushion-forming plant with small, stalkless flowers, was recorded at an astonishing 6,180 m by A.F. R. Wollaston.
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