APPENDAGE


Meaning of APPENDAGE in English

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)

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