SESSILE
\sˈɛsa͡ɪl], \sˈɛsaɪl], \s_ˈɛ_s_aɪ_l]\
Definitions of SESSILE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; "sessile flowers"; "the shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate"
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permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; "an attached oyster"; "sessile marine animals and plants"
By Princeton University
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Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.
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Permanently attached; - said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.
By Oddity Software
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Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.
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Permanently attached; - said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.
By Noah Webster.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Having a position as if sitting; in bot., and zool., sitting directly upon the body to which it belongs without a support, as a sessile leaf; one that issues directly from the main stem or branch without a footstalk.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Sitting directly on the base without support, stalk, or peduncle ; stationary, as opp. free-living or motile.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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