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Pedicilate vs Sessile - What's the difference?

pedicilate | sessile |

As an adjective sessile is

(zoology) permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; “an attached oyster”.

pedicilate

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Pedicilate has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

sessile

Adjective

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  • (zoology) permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; “an attached oyster”
  • (botany) attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk.
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  • 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

    Derived terms

    * subsessile

    Synonyms

    * (not free to move) attached, fixed, immobile

    Antonyms

    * (not free to move) mobile

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