Sessility
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Sessility, or sessile, may refer to:
- Sessility (motility), organisms which are not able to move about
- Sessility (botany), flowers or leaves that grow directly from the stem or peduncle of a plant
- Sessility (medicine), tumors and polyps that lack a stalk
- Sessility (in crystallography), dislocation that is not able to move in the slip plane (as opposed to glissile)
See also[edit]
- Sedentism, in cultural anthropology, the practice of living in one place for a long time