sessile

Adjective
  1. Permanently attached to a substrate;
    Not free to move about (synset 300161240)
    "sessile marine animals and plants"
    referred to in: biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms
  2. Attached directly by the base;
    Not having an intervening stalk (synset 300160763)
    "sessile flowers"; "the shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate"
    referred to in: biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms
    same as: stalkless

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