Sessile

Definition:

• (a.) Attached without any sensible projecting support.
• (a.) Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.
• (a.) Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.

Compare sessile with other words:

sessile vs. terrestrial

holdfast vs. sessile

pedicellate vs. sessile

sessile vs. vagrant

motile vs. sessile

plantain vs. sessile

content vs. sessile

sessile vs. spike

immobile vs. sessile

attached vs. sessile

fixed vs. sessile

sessile vs. stalk

directly vs. sessile

base vs. sessile

free vs. sessile

attach vs. sessile

sessile vs. substrate

permanently vs. sessile

bed vs. sessile

mobile vs. sessile