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adjective

Sessile adj.

Attached without any sensible projecting support.

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

(Zool.) Permanently attached; said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.

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Etymology of 'Sessile'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sessile" Quotes from Famous Books

... hirsute, with procumbent ascending, or erect stems of one to three feet. Leaflets varying from oblong or almost linear, and one-quarter inch to half-inch long, to lanceolate, or linear-acute, and above one inch long. Flowers: large, fragrant, violet, or blue; pod sessile, above one inch long. ...

— The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 • Ernest Favenc

... or verrucose, in some species chinky to areolate, or even subsquamulose, rarely rudimentary and evanescent; apothecia minute to middle-sized, usually adnate, but rarely sessile or immersed, with pale to black, and flat to strongly convex disk; exciple and hypothecium from pale to dark brown in section; hymenium lighter, most commonly pale; spores simple, hyaline, ...

— Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 - The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V • Bruce Fink and Leafy J. Corrington

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