sessile

English

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Etymology

From New Latin sessīlis (“sitting”), from sessus, perfect passive participle of verb sedēre (“sit”), + adjective suffix -īlis. Compare session.

Adjective

sessile (not comparable)

1. (zoology) permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; “an attached oyster”
2. (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 […]

Derived terms

• subsessile

Synonyms

• (not free to move): attached, fixed, immobile

Antonyms

• (not free to move): mobile

Translations

zoology

Catalan: sèssil (ca) Italian: sessile (it)

Spanish: sésil (es) Swedish: sessil (sv), fastsittande (sv)

botany

Catalan: sèssil (ca) Italian: sessile (it)

Spanish: sésil (es)

Anagrams

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Italian

Adjective

sessile m. and f. (m and f plural sessili)

1. (botany, zoology) sessile

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Latin

Adjective

sessile

1. nominative neuter singular of sessilis
2. accusative neuter singular of sessilis
3. vocative neuter singular of sessilis