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单词 appendage
释义 ap·pend·age
\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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