OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 8944

sessile

/ˈsɛsaɪl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
sésil
Permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about.
a sessile oyster
sésil
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.
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 calyptr…
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