sessile English

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What does sessile mean?

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sessile Adjective

— If an animal is sessile it is attached to something (such as a rock or the ground). It cannot leave what it is attached too. A coral is sessile, it cannot leave its reef. Barnacles are also sessile, they are attached to things like ships.

— If something is sessile it attaches directly to what it grows from. It does not have a stalk or stim. The species of flower was known for its sessile leaves. The growth on her larynx was sessile.

sessile

— adjective permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about sessile marine animals and plants

— adjective attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk sessile flowers the shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate

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What other words have the same or similar meaning as sessile?

sessile English » English

stalkless

stemless

sitting

sedentary

bodyless

acaulescent