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Sessile   Listen
adjective
Sessile  adj.  
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.
(Zool.) Permanently attached; said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.





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"Sessile" Quotes from Famous Books



... in some degree the Coniferae and the Cycadofilicales. With the exception of obscure markings, aquatic plants are not so well represented as might have been expected; Parka, a common fossil, has been regarded as a water plant with a creeping stem and two kinds of sporangia in sessile sporocarps. ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 - "Destructors" to "Diameter" • Various


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