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Meaning of "sessile"
Sessile describes an organism or object that is attached directly by its base without a stalk or peduncle
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- Permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about.
- Attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; stalkless.
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The sessile stigma has two lobes.
Many species are active rather than sessile.
Sessile polyps are one of several types of polyps.
Anthers are small and the ovary is sessile.
Sessile polyps can be removed in a similar manner.
These are more common than sessile polyps.
Sessile animals such as sponges are asymmetrical.
The apetalous flowers are small and sessile.
Catkins are sessile and usually bracteate.
The leaves are narrow and sessile.
Leaves are sessile and chartaceous in texture.
The female flowers are sessile on a catkin.
Leaves are sessile or shortly petiolate and coriaceous in texture.
They are the only sessile crustaceans.
The sessile phyllodes are decurrent on branchlets.
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All sponges are sessile aquatic animals.
Sessile organisms respond differently to hydrodynamics.
They may be sessile or short pedunculate.
The leaves of this species are coriaceous and sessile.
The ovary is sessile and included in the involucre.
The compound eyes are generally sessile not stalked.
Spores are either sessile or on the end of short sporaphores.
The leaves may be petiolate or sessile.
The first glume of the sessile spikelet is bikeeled.
Flowers without pedicels are sessile.
Spores are either sessile or on the end of short sporophores.
Bacteria associated with a biofilm are known as sessile bacteria.
They are sessile or on short shoots.
The flower is similar to that of the sessile oak.
Some polyps are flat or sessile and others gave a pedicle.
Plants and trees are sessile.
Sessile animals typically have a motile phase in their development.
The fleshy leaves are almost sessile to shortly petiolate.
Plants are sessile organisms susceptible to biotic and abiotic stresses.
Edge dislocations by themselves are sessile and do not glide.
Plants are sessile organisms capable of recognizing and attack various pathogens.
Coryphella verrucosa grazes on sessile invertebrates on the sea bed.
The great majority are sessile.
They can be sessile or pediculated.
Leaves are alternate usually sessile.
Young plants may have sessile leaves lacking a petiole.
The terminal leaflet may have a petiole or may be sessile.
The ovary is mostly sessile and has nectary glands.
They may be attached to the stem by a peduncle or may be sessile.
Leaves are sessile and coriaceous.
The hairy flagellum points forward in an arc in sessile cells.
Microorganisms exist predominantly as sessile multispecies communities in natural habitats.
The upper leaves are sessile.
Biofilm is the accumulation of sessile organisms on the surfaces of equipment.
Sessile glands are five to ten times as numerous as the stalked glands.
