Sessile

created by Webster 1913
(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:03:25

Ses"sile (?), a. [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 blossom.

3. Zool.

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

 

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