a. [f. STALK sb.1 + -LESS.] Having no stalk; chiefly of vegetable organs, sessile.

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1698.  Petiver, in Phil. Trans., XX. 400. They [sc. the leaves] are sharp at each end and stalkless. Ibid. (c. 1711), Gazophyl., X. 95. Broad-leaved stalkless Dwarf-Moss.

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1894.  [Gertrude L. Bell], Safar nameh. Persian Pict., 47. Held out our hands to be filled with stalkless jessamine blossoms deliciously scented.

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