sessile
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Is sessile a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (zoology) Permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about.Examples: "a sessile oyster"Synonyms: attached, fixed, immobile, fixed, immobile, immotile, immovable, inanimateAntonyms: mobile, motile, vagile, immobilenot-comparable
2. (botany, oncology) Attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; stalkless.Examples: "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 calyptra base[…]"not-comparable
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