Associations to the word «Sessile»
Noun
Adjective
Wiktionary
SESSILE, adjective. (zoology) permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; “an attached oyster”
SESSILE, adjective. (botany) attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk.
SESSILE BELLWORT, noun. A plant of the species Uvularia sessilifolia, native to eastern North America.
SESSILE OAK, noun. A large, deciduous tree, Quercus petraea.
Dictionary definition
SESSILE, adjective. Permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; "sessile marine animals and plants".
SESSILE, adjective. Attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; "sessile flowers"; "the shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.