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Word that means that an organism does not move

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Sessility is the biological property of an organism describing its lack of a means of self-locomotion.
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  • Word that means that an organism does not move.


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  • Sessile / sessility is the word which is used to describe the organisms lack of self locomotion (lack of movement by itself).
  • Sessile organisms are organisms that are immobile & they are fixed to a particular surface / substrate.
  • A sea vase & an acorn barnacle are examples for sessile organisms.

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