appendage

[US]/ə'pendɪdʒ/
[UK]/ə'pɛndɪdʒ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. something attached or added to a person or thing, such as a subordinate or accessory organ, appendage.

Phrases & Collocations

body appendages

Example Sentences

A jawlike appendage of an arthropod.

they treat Scotland as a mere appendage of England.

a natatorial appendage; natatorial birds.

affixed as an appendage

tube ca. 1 mm, faucal appendages low trapeziform, ca. 0.5 mm;

uropods Appendages on the side of the telson which make up the tail fan in crustaceans.

small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages;

Apodous larvae, which lack all trunk appendages, occur in various forms in many endopterygota orders.

small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages; swims on its back.

The lacinate appendages of eupyrene sperm disappeared, and the sperm was surrounded by an envelope from top to tail.

In hemicephalous larvae, the head and its appendages are reduced and partially retracted into the thorax.

The thorax and pleon bear a number of lateral appendages, including the gills, and the tail ends with a telson.

Seeds numerous, reniform, each with a short funicle with a long filiform appendage, the strophiole, coiled around the seed;

chiefly marine annelids possessing both sexes and having paired appendages (parapodia) bearing bristles.

vexillifer larva An elongate, planktonic, pre-adult stage of most, perhaps all, Carapidae characterized by a long, filamentous, usually ornamented dorsal appendage, the vexillum.

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