Sessile : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Sessile	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sessile adj permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; "sessile marine animals and plants" Antonym(s): vagile attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; "sessile flowers"; "the shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate" Synonym(s): sessile, stalkless Antonym(s): pedunculate, stalked
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sessile \Ses"sile\, a. [L. sessilis low, dwarf, from sedere, sessum, to sit: cf. F. sessile.] 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. (Zo[94]l.) Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.