Definitions for sessile



Overview of adj sessile

The adj sessile has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. sessile

(permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; "sessile marine animals and plants")

2. sessile, stalkless

(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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