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"sessile flowers" "the shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate"adjectiveattached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk
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"sessile marine animals and plants"adjectivepermanently attached to a substrate; not free to move aboutOpposite:
Definition that contains sessile
- sea moss sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding
- anthozoan sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed
- polyzoan sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding
- genus sertularia sessile hydroid that forms feathery colonies
- ectoproct sessile mossy aquatic animal having the anus of the polyp outside the crown of tentacles
- moss animal sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding
- sertularia sessile hydroid that forms feathery colonies
- sea mat sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding
- actinozoan sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed
- bryozoan sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding