sessile en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈsɛsaɪl/
- /ˈsɛsɪl/
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Etymology
From Latin sessilis (“sitting”), from sessus, perfect passive participle of verb sedeō (“to sit”), + adjective suffix -ilis. Compare session.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about.
a sessile oyster
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(not-comparable) Attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; stalkless.
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.
1903, George Francis Atkinson, chapter VII, in Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc., 2nd edition, New York: Henry Holt: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[…]
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:
Antonyms
motive · movable · animate · mobile · mobile · vagile · motile · vagile · kinetic · motile · ambulatory
Deriveds
sessile oak · sessilely · sessileness · sessile bellwort · nonsessile · fixosessile · sessility · subsessile
Relateds
Synonyms
immobile · unmoveable · inanimate · unmovable · immovable · immotile · rigid · static · fixed · immobile · stuck · stationary · lifeless · fixed · sessile · inert · attached
Translations (33)
it sessile (botany) · el άμισχος (botany) · de festgewachsen (zoology) · ca sèssil (zoology) · ru сидя́чий (zoology) · de sessil (botany) · de sessil (zoology) · pl bezogonkowy (botany) · sv sessil (zoology) · bg неподвижен (zoology) · de ungestielt (botany) · fr sessile (zoology) · de sitzend (zoology) · ru бесчерешко́вый (botany) · bg без дръжка (botany) · bg прикрепен (zoology) · de stiellos (botany) · ca sèssil (botany) · fi kannaton (botany) · it sessile (zoology) · pl bezszypułkowy (botany) · ru прикреплённый (zoology) · de sitzend (botany) · fi alustaan kiinnittynyt (zoology) · ru сидя́чий (botany) · sv fastsittande (zoology) · de festsitzend (zoology) · pt séssil (botany) · pt séssil (zoology) · pl osadzony (zoology) · es sésil (zoology) · es sésil (botany) · fi varreton (botany)