5. (Zoöl.) Remaining in one place, especially when firmly attached to
some object; as, the oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are
sedentary crustaceans.
Sedentary spider (Zoöl.), one of a tribe of spiders which rest
motionless until their prey is caught in their web.
||Se*de"runt (?), n. [L., they sat, fr. sedere to sit.] A sitting, as
||of a court or other body.
'T is pity we have not Burns's own account of that long sederunt.
Prof. Wilson.
Acts of sederunt (Scots Law), ordinances of the Court of Session for
the ordering of processes and expediting of justice. Bell.
Sedge (?), n. [OE. segge, AS. secg; akin to LG. segge; -- probably
named from its bladelike appearance, and akin to L. secare to cut, E.
saw a cutting instrument; cf. Ir. seisg, W. hesg. Cf. Hassock, Saw the
instrument.] 1. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Carex, perennial,
endogenous, innutritious herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy
places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence,
and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and
midrib. There are several hundred species.
The name is sometimes given to any other plant of the order Cyperaceæ,
which includes Carex, Cyperus, Scirpus, and many other genera of
rushlike plants.