Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, not quite sessile; having a very short footstalk.
- In zoology, not quite sessile, as an insect's abdomen; subpetiolate. See cut under
Polistes .
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- adjective botany Not quite
sessile
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Examples
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Head Mass of sessile or subsessile flowers grouped on a common receptacle.
Chapter 9 1999
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Very fleshy, three to ten inches high, sterile segment subsessile, borne near the middle of the plant, oblong, simple pinnate with three to eight pairs of lunate or fan-shaped divisions, obtusely crenate, the veins repeatedly forking; fertile segment panicled, two to three pinnate.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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The _spikelets_ are 1/6 to 1/4 rarely 1/3 inch long including the awn, subsessile and somewhat on one side on the branches, obscurely articulate but persistent on the pedicels, pale or green, lanceolate.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Male spikelets are 1 - to 2-flowered, subsessile, distichous, jointed on rigid peduncled spikes, which are collected in umbels and surrounded by spathaceous leafy bracts.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _spikelets_ are densely imbricate, binate at each joint, the upper being shortly pedicelled and the lower sessile or subsessile.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _spikelets_ are oblong-lanceolate, acute, about 1/10 inch long, binate, one pedicelled and the other subsessile, the pedicel is angular, about 1/2 to 2/3 the length of the spikelet.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _spikelets_ are small, 1/20 to 1/16 inch subsessile or pedicelled, always appressed to the rachis solitary in the upper portions of the branches, and two to five on the branchlets in the lower portion, pale, green or rarely copper coloured, oblong or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, caducous or glumes one and two persistent.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The spikelets are one-to two-flowered, subsessile and subsecund on the branches which are produced as awn-like bristles beyond the ultimate spikelet, obscurely jointed and persistent on their obconic short pedicels, narrowly lanceolate and terete.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Cones from 4 to 6 cm. long, subsessile, symmetrical, deciduous the third year, leaving a few basal scales on the tree; apophyses sublustrous, nut-brown, somewhat thickened along a transverse keel.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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Cones from 2 to 7 cm. long, subsessile, ovate or ovate-conic, symmetrical or oblique, often persistent; apophyses lustrous tawny-yellow or dark brown, both colors often shading into each other on the same cone, flat, prominent or prolonged into uncinate beaks of various lengths, the last much more developed on the posterior face of the cone, the umbo bordered by a narrow dark ring and bearing the remnant of the mucro.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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