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Related Terms:
free
sea squirt
ectoproct
plantain
substrate
nonsessile
stalk
spike
stalkless
acorn shell
permanently
gonocalyx
attach
base
entoproct
subsessile
rangeomorph
nonmobile
sessilely
directly
sessility
holdfast
intervene
sessileness
Definitions:
Adjective
sessile
Definition: permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; "sessile marine animals and plants"
sessile
stalkless
Definition: attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; "sessile flowers"; "the shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate"
Definition: Permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about.