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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Sessile (0.01241 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to Sessile.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: sessile
sessile
adj 1: permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about;
“an attached oyster”;
“sessile marine animals and
plants” [syn:
attached] [ant:
vagile]
2: attached directly by the base; not having an intervening
stalk;
“sessile flowers”;
“the shell of a sessile barnacle
is attached directly to a substrate” [syn:
stalkless]
[ant:
pedunculate]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Sessile
Sessile
\Ses"sile\, a. [L. sessilis low, dwarf, from sedere,
sessum, to sit: cf. F. sessile.]
1. Attached without any sensible projecting support.
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2. (Bot.) Resting directly upon the main stem or branch,
without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or
blossom.
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3. (Zo["o]l.) Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores
of certain hydroids which never became detached.
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