sessile

ses·sile Audio Help (sěs'īl', -əl)

adj.

Botany Stalkless and attached directly at the base: sessile leaves.
Zoology Permanently attached or fixed; not free-moving: a sessile barnacle.

[Latin sessilis, low, of sitting, from sessus, past participle of sedēre, to sit; see sed- in Indo-European roots.]
ses·sil'i·ty (sě-sĭl'ĭ-tē) n.

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