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/sˈɛsaɪl/
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ADJECTIVE
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attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk
the shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate
sessile flowers -
permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about
sessile marine animals and plants
How To Use sessile In A Sentence
- Epizoic barnacles are sessile, marine crustaceans and constitute a model system featuring the above conditions.
- Racemes many, fascicled or panicled, glume I of sessile spikelets glabrous and pitted. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- Spikelets are small, 1-flowered, binate, one sessile and the other pedicelled, the sessile spikelet is bisexual and the pedicelled is female and rarely bisexual; sessile spikelets are deciduous with the contiguous joint of the rachis and the pedicel. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- It is also suggested that the reef may be a source of pelagic larvae of sessile organisms that may settle on mangrove roots for greater diversity.
- Large field maples will give height and density and will be underplanted with sessile oak and small leaf lime trees.
- Uvularia sessilifolia (sessile-leaved bellwort), Chesuncook woods, 1853. The Maine Woods
- Sessile aquatic macrophytes, however, cannot maintain the same well-defined three-dimensional structure because of the strong drag and shear forces of moving water.
- The _spikelets_ are biseriate, loosely imbricate, ovate, acute, pubescent or villous (sometimes quite glabrous), sessile or shortly pedicelled; the pedicels have one or two (rarely more) long hairs. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- Flowers 3½ inches across, produced from the end of July to the end of September, bright golden yellow; leaves large, ovate, tapering from the middle to both ends; stalk leaves sessile and nearly connate, that is, clasping the stalk by their opposite base. Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885
- Spikelets are small, 1-flowered, binate, one sessile and the other pedicelled, the sessile spikelet is bisexual and the pedicelled is female and rarely bisexual; sessile spikelets are deciduous with the contiguous joint of the rachis and the pedicel. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses