Meaning & use
Sessile
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Permanently fixed in one place and unable to move, or, in botany, attached directly by its base without a stalk.
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Barnacles are sessile organisms that spend their adult lives attached to rocks.
The plant's sessile leaves grow directly from the stem without a petiole.
A note on using this word
Sessile comes from the Latin sedere, 'to sit,' and is widely used in biology to contrast with organisms or structures that move or are stalked.
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