əˈpendij, -dēj also aˈ- noun
( -s )
1. : something accompanying or appended to another thing and usually subordinate or not essential to it : adjunct , appurtenance
most factories are an accumulation of appendages — something tacked on here, something tacked on there — G.S.Perry
music … had been treated for the most part as a kind of decorative appendage to life — H.A.Overstreet
the vermiform appendix is a small tubular appendage of the cecum
2. : a person accompanying or in constant attendance on another usually as a subordinate : hanger-on
occupation forces and their civilian appendages constantly traveling about on cut-rate military tickets — New York Times
3. : limb 2a ; broadly : any peripheral extension of an animal body especially when functioning as a limb (as a seta or cirrus)