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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
appendage
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A variable number of these appendages may become transformed into organs that are functional during post-embryonic life while the remainder disappear.
▪ Among the Apterygota the retention of at least some abdominal appendages is a general feature.
▪ For a long time some of its parts - its mouth and its eating appendages - were classed as separate animals.
▪ I dissected preserved larvae into their component appendages and painstakingly traced each detail.
▪ In soft-bodied insect larvae, where the appendages are reduced or absent, locomotion occurs through quite different physical mechanisms.
▪ Often he upgrades old models with new appendages.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appendage

Appendage \Ap*pend"age\, n.

  1. Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.

    Modesty is the appendage of sobriety.
    --Jer. Taylor.

  2. (Biol.) A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates.

    Antenn[ae] and other appendages used for feeling.
    --Carpenter.

    Syn: Addition; adjunct; concomitant.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
appendage

1640s, from append + -age.

Wiktionary
appendage

n. 1 an external body part that projects from the body 2 a natural prolongation or projection from a part of any organism 3 a part that is joined to something larger

WordNet
appendage
  1. n. an external body part that projects from the body; "it is important to keep the extremities warm" [syn: extremity, member]

  2. a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process" [syn: process, outgrowth]

  3. a part that is joined to something larger

Wikipedia
Appendage

In invertebrate biology, an appendage (or outgrowth) is an external body part, or natural prolongation, that protrudes from an organism's body (in vertebrate biology, an example would be a vertebrate's limbs). It is a general term that covers any of the homologous body parts that may extend from a body segment. These include antennae, mouthparts (including mandibles, maxillae and maxillipeds), gills, walking legs ( pereiopods), swimming legs ( pleopods), sexual organs ( gonopods), and parts of the tail ( uropods). Typically, each body segment carries one pair of appendages.

An appendage which is modified to assist in feeding is known as a maxilliped or gnathopod.

Appendages may become uniramous, as in insects and centipedes, where each appendage comprises a single series of segments, or it may be biramous, as in many crustaceans, where each appendage branches into two sections. Triramous (branching into three) appendages are also possible.There are many appendages.

All arthropod appendages are variations of the same basic structure (homologous), and which structure is produced is controlled by " homeobox" genes. Changes to these genes have allowed scientists to produce animals (chiefly Drosophila melanogaster) with modified appendages, such as legs instead of antennae.

Appendage (EP)

Appendage is Circa Survive's second EP. It was released on November 30, 2010 through Atlantic Records. It contains b-sides from the Blue Sky Noise sessions, as well as a demo of "Sleep Underground". As with Circa Survive's previous three albums and EP, Esao Andrews created the artwork.

Usage examples of "appendage".

Through the ventilator grilles she could clearly hear the sounds of thumping and tapping and slithering of other-species ambulatory appendages overhead, and the indescribable babbie of growling, hissing, gobbling, and cheeping conversation that accompanied it.

In cases where there is prolapsus or falling of the womb, or Anteversion or Retroversion, or other displacements the use of the Antiseptic and Healing Suppositories will be found to be of great benefit in giving strength to the supports of the womb and its appendages.

Antiseptic and Healing Suppositories, applying one every third night After having first cleansed the vagina and neck of the womb thoroughly by the use of warm water and soap as an injection, will prove of great benefit in giving strength to the supports of the womb and its appendages.

As Bernard came in, this gentleman turned and exhibited the ambrosial beard, the symmetrical shape, the monocular appendage, of Captain Lovelock.

Suddenly and most disconcertingly for everybody concerned, but much more so for Blotto, of course, the mop-like appendage refused to wag.

One hour having expired since he had come on board, he ordered his boat, and returned to the shore, and we saw no more of him until we arrived at Spithead, when his lordship came on board, accompanied by a person whom we soon discovered was a half pay purser in the navy: a man who, by dint of the grossest flattery and numerous little attentions, had so completely ingratiated himself with his patron, that he had become as necessary an appendage to the travelling equipage, as the portmanteau or the valet-de-chambre.

He chortled gleefully as his mandibular appendages curled and uncurled and whipped the air.

It had six tentacular limbs which served both as locomotor and manipulatory appendages and, like many immensely strong beings forced to live among entities many times weaker than itself, it was careful and gentle in its movements.

Those possessing extra-sensory powers sufficiently well-developed to make walking or manipulatory appendages unnecessary were given the prefix V, regardless of size or shape.

The shuttlecraft banked around the sinewy appendage, and they swiveled in their seats to see a gigantic mollusk lumber to the surface and roll lazily in the sun.

Another pair of appendages terminated in prehensile organs as efficient as human hands, and a double pair of silvery-gray, membranous wings were folded along the sides of his streamlined, insectile body.

Certain affections of the womb and its appendages, in women, and, in men, stricture of the urethra, adherent prepuce, or foreskin, with wounds and injuries, many times of nerves and organs remote from the paralyzed points, cause the loss of power.

The test is to trace the looping ridge toward the appendage, and if, when it is reached, the tracing may be continued as readily upon the appendage as upon the looping ridge, with no sudden, sharp change of direction, the recurve is sufficient.

An appendage connected at that point is considered to spoil the recurve on that side.

An appendage at that point is considered to spoil the recurve or obstruction.