sessile

Adjective

Meaning

Attached without any sensible projecting support.

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

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

fixed attached stalkless scots committed rigid affiliated sedentary immobile connected tasseled tasselled reopening re-opening reopened
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Antonyms

vagile pedunculate free mobile autonomous detached
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Phrases with the word

sessile animal sessile-flowered wake-robin trillium sessile sessile crustacean

Examples

sessile flowers Source: Internet

the shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate Source: Internet

sessile marine animals and plants Source: Internet

All sponges are sessile aquatic animals. Source: Internet

A terrestrial Geonemertes sp. on a rotting log, from Mindanao Island, the Philippines Most nemerteans are marine animals that burrow in sediments, lurk in crevices between shells, stones or the holdfasts of algae or sessile animals. Source: Internet

Animal tissues Stylized cutaway diagram of an animal cell (with flagella) The kingdom Animalia or metazoa, contains multicellular organisms that are heterotrophic and motile (although some have secondarily adopted a sessile lifestyle). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Sessay Sessegnon sesshin sessile animal sessile bellwort sessile oak