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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--sessile This week's theme: miscellaneous words. sessile (SES-il) adjective 1. Attached directly to the base, without a stalk (as a leaf or a flower). 2. Permanently attached; immobile (as an animal, for example a barnacle). [From Latin sessilis (relating to sitting), from sedere (to sit). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sed- (to sit) that is also the source of sit, chair, saddle, soot, sediment, cathedral, and tetrahedron.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "The history of seating is a serious subject... several books pay tribute to what might be called great moments in modern chair history... here is the bottom line on them. The archdruid, or should I say the chairman, of the sessile sect is Alexander von Vegesack, the director of the Vitra Design Museum, the major collection of modern chairs extant." Raymond Sokolov; Staying Put; The Wall Street Journal (New York); Dec 4, 1997. X-Bonus It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)

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