Sessile

[sesail]

Definition

(adj.) attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; 'sessile flowers'; 'the shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate' .

(adj.) permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; 'sessile marine animals and plants' .

Checked by Clifton--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Attached without any sensible projecting support.

(a.) Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.

(a.) Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.

Checker: Rupert

Definition

adj. (bot.) growing directly from the stem without a foot-stalk as some leaves.

Typed by Darla