insessorial

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English

Etymology

From modern Latin Insessores ‘perchers’, from Latin insidere (sit upon), from in- + sedere (sit).

Pronunciation

Adjective

insessorial

  1. pertaining to a member of the Order Insessores, or perching birds; perching or designed for perching
    • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
      Bruno stood by the fire of sticks and pineknots, nursing his coffee, his cock snub and insessorial in the codpiece of his curt briefs.