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Webster 1913 Edition
Sessile
Ses′sile
,Adj.
[L.
sessilis
low, dwarf, from sedere
, sessum
, to sit: cf. F. sessile
.] 1.
Attached without any sensible projecting support.
2.
(Bot.)
Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk;
as, a
. sessile
leaf or blossom3.
(Zool.)
Permanently attached; – said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sessile
SES'SILE
,Adj.
Definition 2024
sessile
sessile
English
Adjective
sessile (not comparable)
- (zoology) permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; “an attached oyster”
- (botany) attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; stalkless.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 5
- The sporophyte foot is also characteristic: it is very broad and more or less lenticular or disciform, as broad or broader than the calyptra stalk […] , and is sessile on the calyptra base […]
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 5
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- (not free to move): mobile
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