SESSILE

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Attached without any sensible projecting support.

2.
a.

Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.

3.
a.

Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.


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