sessile [
'sesail]
a. 无柄的, 固着的
[医] 无柄的, 无蒂的; 固着的
sessile[ adj ]- permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about
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sessile marine animals and plants
- attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk
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sessile flowers
the shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate
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["o]l.) Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores
of certain hydroids which never became detached.