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Definition of Appendage
1. Noun. An external body part that projects from the body. "It is important to keep the extremities warm"
Specialized synonyms: Chelicera, Mouthpart, Fang, Chela, Claw, Nipper, Pincer, Parapodium, Fin, Pleopod, Swimmeret, Limb, Dactyl, Digit
Generic synonyms: External Body Part
2. Noun. A natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant. "A bony process"
Specialized synonyms: Horn, Horn, Crest, Pseudopod, Pseudopodium, Flagellum, Hair, Cirrus, Spine, Aculea, Style, Villus, Tail, Fetlock, Tentacle, Arista, Acromial Process, Acromion, Ala, Alveolar Arch, Alveolar Process, Alveolar Ridge, Gum Ridge, Acrosome, Caruncle, Caruncula, Condyle, Coronoid Process, Processus Coronoideus, Epicondyle, Fimbria, Apophysis, Spicule, Spiculum, Osteophyte, Papilla, Papilla, Appendix, Cecal Appendage, Vermiform Appendix, Vermiform Process, Mastoid, Mastoid Bone, Mastoid Process, Mastoidal, Styloid Process, Pterygoid Process, Eminence, Tubercle, Tuberosity, Zygomatic Process, Trochanter, Transverse Process, Odontoid Process, Metaphysis, Olecranon, Olecranon Process, Ridge, Excrescence, Papilla, Enation, Plant Process
Generic synonyms: Body Part
3. Noun. A part that is joined to something larger.
Generic synonyms: Part, Portion
Derivative terms: Append, Append
Definition of Appendage
1. n. Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.
Definition of Appendage
1. Noun. an external body part that projects from the body ¹
2. Noun. a natural prolongation or projection from a part of any organism ¹
3. Noun. a part that is joined to something larger ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Appendage
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Appendage
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Appendage
Literary usage of Appendage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin of Vertebrates by Walter Holbrook Gaskell (1908)
"The double nature of the opercular appendage.—Its branchial part. ... Once abandon
that point of view and take as the unit a branchial appendage, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Appendage of the same. Reno-pericardial orifice placing the left renal sac or
nephridium in communicator with the ..."
3. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... and not rarely bearing a short conical or flattened appendage. ... ami with
obscure appendage if any. Akènes terete, more or less turbinate, ..."
4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"A system of law,' he wrote, ' и to the social system of a country as the skin
rather than the clothing to the animal frame ; not only an appendage which may ..."
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