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adjective
Sessile  adj.  
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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"Sessile" Quotes from Famous Books



... geological evidence being upset. I fancied that I was a most unwilling believer in negative evidence; but yet such negative evidence did seem to me so strong that in my "Fossil Lepadidae" I have stated, giving reasons, that I did not believe there could have existed any sessile cirripedes during the Secondary ages. Now, the other day Bosquet of Maestricht sends me a perfect drawing of a perfect Chthamalus (a recent genus) from the Chalk! (51/1. Chthamalus, a genus of Cirripedia. ("A Monograph on the Sub-class ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin
... differences. Immediately below the flower of the Red Clover is a pair of leaves; the blossom is said to be "sessile" or seated on these leaves. Other leaves, and also other blossoms, grow on the same stem. Now look at the White Clover. The blossom grows on a stalk without any leaves or other blossoms on it—only the single blossom at the top of the stalk. ...
— Wildflowers of the Farm • Arthur Owens Cooke


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


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