Adjective
- 1. sessile (vs. vagile)
- usage: permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; "sessile marine animals and plants"
- 2. sessile (vs. pedunculate), stalkless
- usage: attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; "sessile flowers"; "the shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate"
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