appendage
/əˈpɛndɪdʒ
/noun
1A thing that is added or attached to something larger or more important: they treat Scotland as a mere appendage of England...
- They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs.
- The claim of self-sufficiency cannot be contingent upon an appendage to another human being considered superior.
- Instead, she presented herself as an appendage to her husband and talked about her role as consort.
Synonyms
addition, attachment, adjunct, addendum, appurtenance, accessory, accompaniment, affix, extra, add-on, supplement, accretion, peripheral
2 Biology A projecting part of an invertebrate or other living organism, with a distinct appearance or function: a pair of feathery appendages through which oxygen is absorbed...
- These differences in number of segments and function of appendages are used to distinguish between crustacean groups.
- The feather is a skin appendage, like hair, that grows as a unique hollow tube from a follicle by the controlled proliferation of cells in a ring.
- The second pair of appendages, the pedipalps, resemble walking legs.
Synonyms
protuberance, projection, extremity, limb, organ;
tail, tailpiece, arm, leg
technical process
archaic member