ses|sile

ses|sile
ses|sile «SEHS uhl», adjective.
1. a) Botany. attached by the base instead of by a stem. A leaf having no petiole or a flower having no peduncle or pedicel is sessile. »

If no style intervenes between the ovary and stigma, the stigma is said to be sessile, as in the poppy (Heber W. Youngken).

 b) Zoology. attached by the base and having no connecting neck, as certain organs or animals. Some barnacles are sessile.
2. Zoology. sedentary; fixed to one spot; not able to move around: »

A small group of about a dozen species of sessile, marine, wormlike animals…secrete a hard tube in which they dwell (A. M. Winchester).

3. static; immobile: »

a sessile droplet of water, a sessile dislocation.

╂[< Latin sessilis sitting < sedēre to sit]

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