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Definition of Sessile

1. Adjective. Permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about. "Sessile marine animals and plants"

2. Adjective. Attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk. "The shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate"

Definition of Sessile

1. a. Attached without any sensible projecting support.

Definition of Sessile

1. Adjective. (zoology) permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; “an attached oyster” ¹

2. Adjective. (botany) attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sessile

1. permanently attached [adj]

Medical Definition of Sessile

1. Attached by a base rather than a stalk, a sessile lesion adheres closely to the surface (mucosa). (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sessile

sesquisulfide sesquisulfides sesquisulphide sesquisulphides sesquisyllabic sesquiterpene sesquiterpenes sesquiterpenoid sesquiterpenoids sesquitertianal

sesquitone sesquitones sess sessa sesses sessile (current term) sessile-eyed sessile hydatid sessile oak sessile polyp

sessile trillium sessileness sessilities sessility session session band session bean session cookie session data session musician

Literary usage of Sessile

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Male flower of a single stamen and a membranous tubular 4-lobed perianth within a small cup-shaped membranous spathe ; anther 4-celled, nearly sessile ..."

2. Forced Movements, Tropisms, and Animal Conduct by Jacques Loeb (1918)
"HELIOTROPISM OF sessile ANIMALS When we study the effects of light on sessile animals we find that they behave in a similar manner to sessile plants. ..."

3. Forced Movements, Tropisms, and Animal Conduct by Jacques Loeb (1918)
"These sessile animals were the first examples by which the Flo. 24.—Tube worms in aquarium, all bending toward light. muscle tension theory of animal ..."

4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Leaves sessile ; sepals not reflexed. Flowers purple ; petals lanceolate. ... 1753. ular, sessile, acute or obtuse and cuspidate at the apex, ..."

5. Animal Communities in Temperate America: As Illustrated in the Chicago by Victor Ernest Shelford (1913)
"sessile animals are probably all aquatic. Logically, ecology cannot be divided into plant and animal ecology, but it may be divided into the ecology of ..."

6. A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia by Stephen Elliott (1821)
"Flowers generally solitary, axillary, sessile, with two leaves at the base of each.. Leaves of the cali/.v wide at ba^e, slightly acuminate at the incurved ..."

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