Category:Sessile

Ses"sile, a. Etym: [l. sessilis low, dwarf, from sedere, sessum, to Sit: cf. F. sessile.]

1. Attached without any sensible projecting support.

2. (bot.)

Defn: resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a Petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.

3. (zoöl.)

Defn: permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain Hydroids which never became detached.