sessile

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From Latin sessilis (sitting), from sessus, perfect passive participle of verb sedeō (to sit), + adjective suffix -ilis. Compare session.

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sessile (not comparable)

  1. (zoology) Permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about.
    a sessile oyster
  2. (botany) Attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; stalkless.
    • 1903, George Francis Atkinson, chapter VII, in Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.[1], 2nd edition, New York: Henry Holt:
      The pileus is sessile, or sometimes narrowed at the base into a short stem, the caps often numerous and crowded together in an overlapping or imbricate manner.
    • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, 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 []

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From Latin sessilis.

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sessile (plural sessili)

  1. (botany, zoology) sessile

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sessile

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of sessilis