Sessile Synonyms and Antonyms

sĕsīl, -əl
Attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. stalkless
Antonyms:
  1. pedunculate
  2. vagile
Permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about
(Adjective)
Antonyms:
  1. vagile
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Words Related to Sessile

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. deciduous
  2. red-algae
  3. epiphyte
  4. calcifuge
  5. glutinosa
  6. bryozoan

Sessile Sentence Examples

  • Sessile, stalked, with eight shallow marginal lobes bearing one or more rows of tentacles; without tentaculocysts; with four gonads.

  • If fertile they become free medusae or sessile gonophores.

  • The range of sessile oak does not extend quite as far east in Russia as that of pedunculate oak.

  • The flowers are clustered in erect spikes, are sessile, of a greenish-white, with the petals rather far apart.

  • The polyp is regarded, on this view, as a form phylogenetically older than the medusa, in short, as nothing more than a sessile actinula.

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