sessile
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English
Etymology
From Latin sessilis (“sitting”), from sessus, perfect passive participle of verb sedeō (“to sit”), + adjective suffix -ilis. Compare session.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛsaɪl/, /ˈsɛsɪl/
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Adjective
sessile (not comparable)
- (zoology) Permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about.
- a sessile oyster
- (botany, oncology) 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., 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 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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Adjective
sessile (plural sessili)
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Adjective
sessile