sessile

sessile is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Attached without any sensible projecting support. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Attached without any sensible projecting support.
2. adjective. Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.
3. adjective. Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.
4. adjective. attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk

   "sessile flowers"

   "the shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate"

   Synonyms: stalkless

5. adjective. permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about

   "sessile marine animals and plants"

Synonyms

stalkless

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