Definitions for appendage

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appendage ap·pend·age

Spelling: [uh-pen-dij]

IPA: /əˈpɛn dɪdʒ/

Appendage is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 182 anagrams from letters in appendage (aadeegnpp).

Definitions for appendage

noun

1. a subordinate part attached to something; an auxiliary part; addition.
2. Anatomy, Zoology. any member of the body diverging from the axial trunk.
3. Botany, Mycology. any subsidiary part superadded to another part.
4. a person in a subordinate or dependent position, especially a servile or parasitic follower.

Origin of appendage

First recorded in 1640-50; append + -age

Examples for appendage

So many were arrested in Leningrad, the poet Anna Akhmatova said, that the city “dangled like an appendage from its prisons….”

Proximal: that part of an appendage nearest the body: see distal.

Bloggers brought another microphone to an already crowded GOP media table and became an appendage of talk radio.

The tablinum was an appendage of the atrium, and usually entirely open to it.

This appendage is often found to measure eighteen inches in length!

Did it ever occur to you that it must be disagreeable to Watch to have such an appendage to his tail?

This appendage, there can be no doubt, originated with the basilicas of Italy.

The subject is a great one and cannot be adequately treated as an appendage to another.

Or, one of the measures might resurface as an appendage to an unrelated law.

Simple, Simplex: without process, armature, or appendage of any kind.