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Sessile or colony forming members of the collared flagellates use their flagella to create a water current to draw small food particles, such as water-borne bacteria.
Protozoa 2008
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Sessile forms (e.g. Suctioria) use haptocysts on feeding tentacles to snag smaller ciliate prey and then suck out the nutritious cytoplasm.
Protozoa 2008
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Sessile spikelets are bisexual or sometimes female,
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Sessile spikelet; B. sessile and a pedicelled spikelet; 1, 2, 3 and
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Sessile spikelets geminate in all except the uppermost joints 26.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Sessile spikelets binate; first glume globose, pitted 27.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Sessile vocal nodules may be cured by touching them with a fine galvanocautery point, but all work on the vocal cords must be done with extreme caution and nicety.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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Sessile forms resting on basal _Dendrocometidæ_ surface or on a portion raised like a stalk; tentacles many; short and knobbed; distributed on apical surface or localized on branched arms
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906
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