Word Meanings - SESSILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom. (more info) 1. Attached without any sensible projecting support.

Related words: (words related to SESSILE)

• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• BRANCHIOSTOMA
  The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• RESTAGNATE
  To stagnate; to cease to flow. Wiseman.
• PROJECTMENT
  Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• RESTORATIVELY
  In a restorative manner.
• BRANCHLESS
  Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.
• RESTAGNANT
  Stagnant; motionless. Boyle.
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• BRANCHING
  Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.
• RESTIFFNESS
  Restiveness.
• BRANCHIOPODA
  An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It
• BRANCHINESS
  Fullness of branches.
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• RESTITUTION
  The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body. (more info) 1. The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or
• RESTORATORY
  Restorative.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• TECTIBRANCHIA
  See TECTIBRANCHIATA
• NUDIBRANCHIATA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.
• ABRANCHIAL
  Abranchiate.
• PYGOBRANCHIA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• TERRESTRIFY
  To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. Sir T. Browne.
• PODOBRANCH
  One of branchiæ attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.
• UNDERCREST
  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
• ASPIDOBRANCHIA
  A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.
• LAMELLIBRANCHIATE
  Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n.
• PRESTIGIOUS
  Practicing tricks; juggling. Cotton Mather.
• EPIBRANCHIAL
  Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• HYPOBRANCHIAL
  Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
• PULMOBRANCHIATA; PULMOBRANCHIATE
  See -ATE (more info) & n.