Definition of Sessility

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sessility

sesquiterpenoids
sesquitertianal
sesquitone
sesquitones
sess
sessa
sesses
sessile
sessile-eyed
sessile hydatid
sessile oak
sessile polyp
sessile trillium
sessileness
sessilities
sessility (current term)
session
session band
session bean
session cookie
session data
session musician
session musicians
sessional
sessionless
sessionographies
sessionography
sessions
sesspool
sesspools

Literary usage of Sessility

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cystoscopy and Urethroscopy for General Practitioners by Bransford Lewis, Ernest Gutheric Mark, William Braasch, Frederick (1915)
"In the main, the malignant tumors of this class are characterized by shorter, denser villi, and a tendency to sessility and multiplicity. ..."

2. Experimental Morphology by Charles Benedict Davenport (1899)
"... GROWTH IT is a result of the sessility of the higher plants that they and their parts are acted upon continuously in one direction by gravity. ..."

3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1903)
"... and sessility are often associated, a creeping motion and bilateral symmetry. Perhaps such a relation would be better expressed in the statement: the ..."

4. The Feebly Inhibited: Nomadism, Or the Wandering Impulse, with Special by Charles Benedict Davenport (1915)
"Thus human locomotor responses range from sessility and extreme domesticity to "ambulatory automatism." A term is needed to apply to these cases in all of ..."

5. Experimental Morphology by Charles Benedict Davenport (1899)
"EFFECT OF GRAVITY UPON THE RATE OF GROWTH IT is a result of the sessility of the higher plants that they and their parts are acted upon continuously in one ..."

6. Experimental Morphology by Charles Benedict Davenport (1899)
"... IT is a result of the sessility of the higher and their parts are acted upon continuously ii gravity. It might consequently be suspecte( their growth ..."

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