Crossword-Solution: SESSILE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sessile | a. | Attached without any sensible projecting support. |
| Sessile | a. | Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom. |
| Sessile | a. | Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SESSILE | anagram | SESELIS |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with SESSILE (5)
Open swales, where in wet years may be running water, are plantations of false hellebore (Veratrum californicum), tall, branched candelabra of greenish bloom above the sessile, sheathing, boat-shaped leaves, semi-translucent in the sun.
The plants anchor out on tiny capes, or mid-stream islets, with the nearly sessile radicle leaves submerged.
The borders of the iris fields are pure gold, nearly sessile buttercups and a creeping-stemmed composite of a redder hue.
Warner, in a report of the examination of 50,000 children, quoted by Ballantyne, describes 33 with supernumerary auricles, represented by sessile or pedunculated outgrowths in front of the tragus.
Look at the common oak, how closely it has been studied; yet a German author makes more than a dozen species out of forms, which are almost universally considered by other botanists to be varieties; and in this country the highest botanical authorities and practical men can be quoted to show that the sessile and pedunculated oaks are either good and distinct species or mere varieties.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 26 times in crossword archives (1943–2014).