Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A group of fixed rotifers; the Flosculariidæ and Melicertidæ: opposed to Natantia. See
Pedata . - noun In Lamarck's classification (1801–1812), one of two orders of Cirripedia, distinguished from
Pedunculata , and containing the sessile as distinguished from the pedunculate cirripeds; the sessile barnacles, as acornshells.
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Examples
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Ovarium 3-loculare; ovulis solitariis pendulis; stigmata 3, sessilia.
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823
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Folia lateralia sessilia, interme - dium breve petiolatum; sterile reticulato-ve - nosum pinnatifidums laciniis oblongo - lanceo - latis subfalcatis acutis integerrimis Jere polli» caribus, foliorum lateralium superioribus bre - vioribus; fiructificans reticulato-venosum pin - natifidum, laciniis lineari - lanceolatis acutis falcatis sesquipollicaribus j, foliorur. i lateralium superioribus breifioribus.
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Folia lateralia frondis sterilis sessilia pinnatifida; laciniae exteriores ohlongo - linea - res obtusae majores trilineares ohtuse serratae, laciniae inferiores breiissimae.
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