sessilely

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/ˈsɛs.aɪl.li//ˈsɛs.ɪl.li/

adverb

In a sessile manner.

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Meanings

adverbsessilely (comparative more sessilely, superlative most sessilely)

comparative more sessilely · superlative most sessilely

  1. biologyIn a sessile manner.

    The species, so far as the shape of the lorica is concerned, resembles the sessilely attached fresh-water Salpingaeca fusiformis, S. K., but is excluded from the section to which Kent has relegated the latter, by the possession of the pedicle.

    1886, Journal of the Trenton Natural History Society, volume 1, page 138

Origin

From sessile + -ly.

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