01 a. Attached without any sensible projecting support.
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Attached without any sensible projecting support.
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Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.(Bot.)
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Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.(Zool.)