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sessile

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Adjective
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ses=sile

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective sessile has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

sessilea. [L. sessilis low, dwarf, from sedere, sessum, to sit: cf. F. sessile.].
  •  Attached without any sensible projecting support.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sessile, adj.
1 Bot. & Zool. (of a flower, leaf, eye, etc.) attached directly by its base without a stalk or peduncle.
2 fixed in one position; immobile.

Idiom
sessile oak = DURMAST.
Etymology
L sessilis f. sedere sess- sit
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