Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Attached without any sensible projecting support.
- 2adjective
Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.
- 3adjective
Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.
- 4adjective
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
- 5adjective
permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about
"sessile marine animals and plants"
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