appendage
a subordinate part attached to something; an auxiliary part; addition.
Anatomy, Zoology. any member of the body diverging from the axial trunk.
Botany, Mycology. any subsidiary part superadded to another part.
a person in a subordinate or dependent position, especially a servile or parasitic follower.
Origin of appendage
1Other words from appendage
- ap·pend·aged, adjective
- un·ap·pend·aged, adjective
Words Nearby appendage
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How to use appendage in a sentence
The smells are picked up by the palps, those long sensory appendages around the mouth.
Evolution made mosquitos into stealthy, sensitive vampires | Erica McAlister | October 15, 2020 | Popular-ScienceThe appendage, magnified 40 times, was photographed in layers with a laser to reconstruct the tongue in three dimensions.
A glowing zebrafish wins the 2020 Nikon Small World photography contest | Erin Garcia de Jesus | October 13, 2020 | Science NewsWhen the subjects moved their arms, a robotic appendage behind them simultaneously touched their backs in the same fashion.
Underneath all those aerodynamic appendages, the mechanical bits have been similarly stimulated, taking friction out here and quickening response times there.
The Honda Civic Type-R is more fun to drive than a supercar | Jonathan M. Gitlin | October 5, 2020 | Ars TechnicaLike a scene out of a sci-fi movie, cells invaded by the coronavirus can sprout probing appendages bedecked with viral bits.
Coronavirus-infected cells sprout filaments that may spread the virus | Jack J. Lee | July 20, 2020 | Science News
So many were arrested in Leningrad, the poet Anna Akhmatova said, that the city “dangled like an appendage from its prisons….”
Or, one of the measures might resurface as an appendage to an unrelated law.
Why Arizona is Retreating on its Immigration Law | Terry Greene Sterling | March 19, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTBloggers brought another microphone to an already crowded GOP media table and became an appendage of talk radio.
Their dresses were made as in England; but the pattern of the cloth, or some appendage to it, was different.
Scarcely had we reached our first stage (about seven miles), before every appendage of a metropolitan city had disappeared.
Thus, even the discovery which made chemistry a science, has attached to it in their award this feeble appendage.
Decline of Science in England | Charles BabbageThe Celtic Church had sunk into being a mere appendage of the wild tribes it had once tried to tame.
Is Ulster Right? | AnonymousThe caudal appendage of the juvenile and female is made up of three small joints tapering to a blunt end.
British Dictionary definitions for appendage
/ (əˈpɛndɪdʒ) /
an ancillary or secondary part attached to a main part; adjunct
zoology any organ that projects from the trunk of animals such as arthropods
botany any subsidiary part of a plant, such as a branch or leaf
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