| 单词 | sessile |
| 释义 | sessile (once / 9525 pages) adj WORD FAMILY sessile USAGE EXAMPLESThat may lead to an environmentally friendly method of stopping sessile marine organisms growing in the wrong places. Economist(Aug 25, 2016) Formally they're called sessile animals, creatures that spend their adult lives anchored to one spot on rocks, jetties and piers. BBC(Feb 01, 2016) To study the impact, researchers looked at sessile creatures: small animals that live in sediment or fix to hard surfaces. BBC(Apr 28, 2015) 1adj attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk sessile flowers the shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate Syn|Ant stalkless pedunculate, stalked having or growing on or from a peduncle or stalk 2adj permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about sessile marine animals and plants Ant vagile having freedom to move about free-swimming, unattached(of animals) able to swim about; not attached |
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