Sessile Definition

sĕsīl, -əl
adjective
Permanently fixed; immobile.
Webster's New World
Attached directly by its base.
Webster's New World
Having no pedicel or peduncle; attached directly to the main stem, as the flower and leaves of a trillium plant.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Sessile

  • From New Latin sessÄ«lis (“sitting"), from sessus, perfect passive participle of verb sedÄ“re (“sit"), + adjective suffix -Ä«lis. Compare session.

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin sessilis low, of sitting from sessus past participle of sedēre to sit sed- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Sessile Sentence Examples

  • Sessile, stalked, with eight shallow marginal lobes bearing one or more rows of tentacles; without tentaculocysts; with four gonads.

  • If fertile they become free medusae or sessile gonophores.

  • The testes are situated in a distinct sessile or slightly pedunculated scrotum, into which they descend from the sixth to the tenth month after birth.

  • A flower having a stalk is called pedunculate or pedicel- late; one having no stalk is sessile.

  • The range of sessile oak does not extend quite as far east in Russia as that of pedunculate oak.

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SSESES

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ELEILE

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