sessile

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Etymology

From New Latin sessilis (“sitting”), from sessus, perfect passive participle of verb sedēre (“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.
    • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →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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Italian

Adjective

sessile (masculine and feminine plural sessili)

  1. (botany, zoology) sessile

Latin

Adjective

sessile

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