Appendage
[ə'pendɪdʒ] or [ə'pɛndɪdʒ]
Definition
(n.) Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.
(n.) A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates.
Typed by Clarissa
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Concomitant, attendant, accompaniment, adjunct, attachment, appurtenance, appendix, tailpiece.
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Examples
- The latter faithful appendage is also invariably a part of the old girl's presence out of doors. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, as vulgar appendages. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- A large park was one of its appendages, laid out with great taste, and plentifully stocked with game. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- They may, perhaps, be considered as appendages, as a sort of splendid and shewy equipage of the empire. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Edited by Ellis