appendage — appendage, appurtenance, accessory, adjunct designate something regarded as additional and at the same time as subsidiary to another object. Appendage implies a certain closeness of attachment or connection yet often stresses the idea of… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
Appendage — Ap*pend age, n. 1. Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house. [1913 Webster] Modesty is the appendage of sobriety. Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 2. (Biol.) A… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Appendage — (frz. –angdasch), Appendance (frz. –angs), Appendicula, Anhängsel, Zugehör … Herders Conversations-Lexikon
appendage — index accession (annexation), addendum, adjoiner, adjunct, allonge, appendix (accession), appendix … Law dictionary
appendage — (n.) 1640s, from APPEND (Cf. append) + AGE (Cf. age) … Etymology dictionary
appendage — [n] limb; accessory addendum, addition, adjunct, ancillary, annex, appendix, appurtenance, attachment, auxiliary, extremity, member, projection, protuberance, supplement; concept 835 Ant. body, trunk … New thesaurus
appendage — ► NOUN ▪ a thing attached to or projecting from something larger or more important … English terms dictionary
appendage — [ə pen′dij] n. 1. anything appended; adjunct 2. any subordinate or external organ or part of a plant or animal, as a branch, tail, or limb … English World dictionary
Appendage — In invertebrate biology, an appendage is an external body part, or natural prolongation, that protrudes from an organism s body (in verterbrate biology, an example would be a vertebrate s limbs). It is a general term that covers any of the… … Wikipedia
appendage — [[t]əpe̱ndɪʤ[/t]] appendages N COUNT: oft N of/to n An appendage is something that is joined to or connected with something larger or more important. [FORMAL] Upon marriage she automatically lost most of her legal rights and became an appendage… … English dictionary
appendage — n. an appendage to * * * [ə pendɪdʒ] an appendage to … Combinatory dictionary
) [Holthuis, 1993].Schematic drawing of a thoracic leg. [Holthuis, 1993](Order Isopoda):An articulated structure used for feeding, locomotion, sensory reception, e.g., mouthparts, antennae, pereopods, pleopods, uropods [Kensley and Schotte, 1989].(Subclass Copepoda):Paired extensions of a somite along a proximodistal axis and usually composed of serially repeated elements. Appendages of copepods include the limb of the five cephalic somites, the limb of the seven thoracic somites plus the caudal ramus of the anal segment (see also limb and swimming leg) [Ferrari and Dahms, in press].