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. [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom. [1913 Webster] 3. (Zo["o]l.) Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached. [1913 Webster]