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adj
Permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
Synonyms: attached, fixed, immobile, immotile, immovable, inanimate, inert, lifeless, sessile, static, rigid, stationary, stuck, unmovable, unmoveable
Antonyms: mobile, motile, vagile, ambulatory, animate, kinetic, motive, movable
adj
Attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; stalkless.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: biology, botany, medicine, natural-sciences, oncology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: stalkless
Antonyms: pedunculate
adjective
permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: vagile
History
From Latin sessilis (“sitting”), from sessus, perfect passive participle of verb sedeō (“to sit”), + adjective suffix -ilis. Compare session.
Across languages
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
