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Sessile

adjective
1.
Permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about.
2.
Attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk.  Synonym: stalkless.  "The shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate"



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sessile polyp
sessile trillium
Trillium sessile


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"Sessile" Quotes from Famous Books



... is viscid and exhales a powerful odor, which is somewhat like heated honey. It requires rather a rich soil, of a ferruginous character. The root is fusiform, the stem cylindrical, and furnished with sessile, three to five longitudinally-nerved leaves, which are apposite on the lower portion of the stem, and alternate on the upper. M. Victor Pasquier, who has written on the culture of the plant, analysed the seed, and found 100 parts to consist of 26.5 of testa, and 73.5 of kernel; 100 parts ...
— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds
... may give another instance, which, from having passed under my own eyes, has much struck me. In a memoir on Fossil Sessile Cirripedes, I stated that, from the number of existing and extinct tertiary species; from the extraordinary abundance of the individuals of many species all over the world from the Arctic regions to ...
— Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) • George John Romanes


Words linked to "Sessile" :   pedunculate, vagile, biological science, biology, sessile polyp, Trillium sessile


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