[
US
/əˈpɛndɪdʒ/
]
[ UK /ɐpˈɛndɪdʒ/ ]
[ UK /ɐpˈɛndɪdʒ/ ]
NOUN
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an external body part that projects from the body
it is important to keep the extremities warm - a part that is joined to something larger
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a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant
a bony process
How To Use appendage In A Sentence
- All specimens are exuviae, with thin and fragile carapaces and abdomens and fragmentary bodies and appendages.
- The two appendages hanging from the insect's mouth are used to detect and taste food.
- The word compromise had no place in her vocabulary - she lived on her terms and when she could no longer do so, she preferred to die rather than become an appendage to someone else's life.
- Elsewhere, another such ‘baby,’ this one with four tentacles, lies on its back, wiggling his creepy appendages at an individual wearing a cloak and a bizarre sculpturesque mound atop his head.
- The broadness of the portunid sternum allows the appendages to project well beyond the lateral margins of the carapace and is an adaptation to the swimming habit which most portunids exhibit.
- The shape of the pronotum (damselflies) and the head (dragonflies) is very important in reproduction, because the male grasps the female around her neck with appendages on the end of his abdomen. Insecta (Aquatic)
- One thing is for sure - the interest in the manband won't be shrinking any time soon, unlike some other appendages. The Sun
- A variable number of these appendages may become transformed into organs that are functional during post-embryonic life while the remainder disappear.
- Among the Apterygota the retention of at least some abdominal appendages is a general feature.
- In such patients, cardioversion should be delayed until the patient has been anticoagulated at appropriate levels INR 2.0 to 3.0 for three to four weeks or shorter term anticoagulation if screening transesophageal echocardiography has excluded atrial and atrial appendage thrombi. Sometimes I Hate Being Good