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Word Meanings - SESSILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom. (more info) 1. Attached without any sensible projecting support.

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  • SUPPORTABLE
    Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
  • PROJECTION
    The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
  • SUPPORTATION
    Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
  • BRANCHIOSTOMA
    The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
  • RESTRAINABLE
    Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
  • RESTAGNATE
    To stagnate; to cease to flow. Wiseman.
  • PROJECTMENT
    Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
  • RESTRICT
    Restricted.
  • RESTORATIVELY
    In a restorative manner.
  • BRANCHLESS
    Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.
  • RESTAGNANT
    Stagnant; motionless. Boyle.
  • SUPPORTFUL
    Abounding with support. Chapman.
  • BRANCHING
    Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.
  • RESTIFFNESS
    Restiveness.
  • BRANCHIOPODA
    An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It
  • BRANCHINESS
    Fullness of branches.
  • SUPPORTLESS
    Having no support. Milton.
  • RESTITUTION
    The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body. (more info) 1. The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or
  • RESTORATORY
    Restorative.
  • WITHOUT-DOOR
    Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
  • TECTIBRANCHIA
    See TECTIBRANCHIATA
  • NUDIBRANCHIATA
    A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.
  • ABRANCHIAL
    Abranchiate.
  • PYGOBRANCHIA
    A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiƦ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
  • DISINTERESTING
    Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
  • TERRESTRIFY
    To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. Sir T. Browne.
  • PODOBRANCH
    One of branchiƦ attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.
  • UNDERCREST
    To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
  • ASPIDOBRANCHIA
    A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.
  • LAMELLIBRANCHIATE
    Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n.
  • PRESTIGIOUS
    Practicing tricks; juggling. Cotton Mather.
  • EPIBRANCHIAL
    Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
  • HYPOBRANCHIAL
    Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
  • UNINTERESTED
    1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
  • PULMOBRANCHIATA; PULMOBRANCHIATE
    See -ATE (more info) & n.

 

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