Word of the Day:
sessile
What It Means
Permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about.
Attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; stalkless.
a sessile oyster
Sessile in Context
“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[…]”
Did You Know?
From Latin sessilis (“sitting”), from sessus, perfect passive participle of verb sedeō (“to sit”), + adjective suffix -ilis. Compare session.
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