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English
Etymology
From sessile + -ly.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛs.aɪl.li/, /ˈsɛs.ɪl.li/
Adverb
sessilely (comparative more sessilely, superlative most sessilely)
- (zoology, botany) In a sessile manner.
1886, Journal of the Trenton Natural History Society, volume 1, page 138:The species, so far as the shape of the lorica is concerned, resembles the sessilely attached fresh-water Salpingaeca fusiformis, S. K., but is excluded from the section to which Kent has relegated the latter, by the possession of the pedicle.