sessile
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From New Latin sessīlis (“sitting”), from sessus, perfect passive participle of verb sedēre (“sit”), + adjective suffix -īlis. Compare session.
Adjective [edit]
sessile (not comparable)
- (zoology) permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; “an attached oyster”
- (botany) attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 5
- The sporophyte foot is also characteristic: it is very broad and more or less lenticular or disciform, as broad or broader than the calyptra stalk […] , and is sessile on the calyptra base […]
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 5
Derived terms [edit]
Synonyms [edit]
Antonyms [edit]
- (not free to move): mobile
Translations [edit]
zoology
Anagrams [edit]
Italian [edit]
Adjective [edit]
sessile m and f (m and f plural sessili)
Latin [edit]
Adjective [edit]
sessile