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What does sessile mean?

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Adjective
  1. (zoology) Permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about.
  2. (botany) Attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; stalkless.
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Most starfish are predators, feeding on sessile or slow-moving prey such as mollusks and barnacles.
All are tree Euphorbias, have minute sessile leaves and yellowish cyathia but differ in other respects.
Crinoids, together with brachiopods, dominated the Paleozoic sessile benthos.
The zoaea larva can be recognized by the flattened blade at the end of the telson, the smooth rostrum and the sessile eyes.
Instead, many used a scenario approach to conclude that solitary sessile polyps represent the ancestral cnidarian form.
Half of the field will be planted with native ash, along with cherry, rowan and hazel trees, sessile oaks and downy birches.

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