Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
attached directly by the base;
not having an intervening stalk;
- Example: "sessile flowers"- Example: "the shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate"[syn: sessile, stalkless]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stalkless \Stalk"less\, a.
Having no stalk.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
stalkless
adj 1: 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:
sessile, stalkless] [ant: pedunculate, stalked]