sessĭlis, e, adj. [sedeo]. I.Of or be longing to sitting, fit for sitting upon (only in the poets and in post-Aug. prose): tergum (equi), Ov. M. 12, 401: obba, i. e.
with a broad foot
, Pers. 5, 148; so, pira minimo pe diculo, Plin. 15, 15, 16, 56.—Hence, II.Transf., of plants, low, dwarf: genus lactucae,