sessile

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about.

   A sessile oyster.

2. 2
   adj

   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.

3. 3
   adj

   attached directly by the base

4. 4
   adj

   permanently attached to a substrate

Common collocations

• sessile polyp Adjective + noun

From Latin sessilis (“sitting”), from sessus, perfect passive participle of verb sedeō (“to sit”), + adjective suffix -ilis. Compare session.

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