Sessilely

//ˈsɛs.aɪl.li// adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In 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."

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From sessile + -ly.

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