sessile

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

sessile (not comparable)

(zoology) Permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about.
a sessile oyster
(botany) Attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; stalkless.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →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 […]

Synonyms

(not free to move): attached, fixed, immobile

Antonyms

(not free to move): mobile

Derived terms

nonsessile
sessile bellwort
sessilely
sessileness
sessile oak
sessility
subsessile

Translations

zoology

Catalan: sèssil
Finnish: alustaan kiinnittynyt
German: ortsfest, festgewachsen, festsitzend, sitzend (de), sessil
Italian: sessile (it)

Portuguese: séssil (pt)
Spanish: sésil (es)
Swedish: sessil, fastsittande

botany

Catalan: sèssil
Finnish: varreton (fi), kannaton (fi)
German: ungestielt, stiellos, sessil, sitzend (de)
Greek: άμισχος (el) (ámischos)

Italian: sessile (it)
Portuguese: séssil (pt)
Spanish: sésil (es)

Anagrams

lessies

Italian

Adjective

sessile (masculine and feminine plural sessili)

(botany, zoology) sessile

Latin

Adjective

sessile

nominative neuter singular of sessilis
accusative neuter singular of sessilis
vocative neuter singular of sessilis