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rhizosessile

rhizosessile adjective: having rootlike holdfast structures.

Adjective

rhizosessile (not comparable)

  1. Having rootlike holdfast structures.
    • Rhizosessile forms. - Several ketophyllid, cystiphyllid and operculate rugose corals are rhizosessile, characterized by having rhizoid (= rootlike) holdfasts which supplied secondary support to the corallites.1988, Bjorn Neuman, “Some aspects of life strategies of Early Palaeozoic rugose corals”, in Lethaia, volume 21, page 110
    • Rhizosessile genera have root-like holdfasts emanating from the corallite at several levels, and fastened to sediment grains (e.g. Dokophyllum).1998, E.N.K. Clarkson, Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution, →ISBN, page 179

Origin of rhizosessile

From rhizoid (“rootlike”) + sessile (“fixed in place”). Attested from 1980s (see quotations below).

Questions about rhizosessile

What does rhizosessile mean?
Rhizosessile means having rootlike holdfast structures.
What part of speech is rhizosessile?
Rhizosessile is an adjective.

Words near rhizosessile in the dictionary

  1. rhizosecreted
  2. rhizosecretes
  3. rhizosecreting
  4. rhizosecretion
  5. rhizosecretions
  6. rhizosessile
  7. rhizosheath
  8. rhizosheaths
  9. rhizosphere
  10. rhizospheres
  11. rhizospheric

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