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appendage 1. Zoology any organ that projects from the trunk of animals such as arthropods 2. Botany any subsidiary part of a plant, such as a branch or leaf appendage [ə′pen·dij] (biology) Any subordinate or nonessential structure associated with a major body part. (naval architecture) Any fitting installed outside the underwater hull proper, such as a rudder, shaft, shaft strut, and bilge keel. (zoology) Any jointed, peripheral extension, especially limbs, of arthropod and vertebrate bodies. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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And since the nose is the central and most conspicuous of the features; and since it perhaps most modifies and finally controls their combined expression; hence it would seem that its entire absence, as an external appendage, must very largely affect the countenance of the whale. The result was, that, after a few struggles, Oliver breathed, sneezed, and proceeded to advertise to the inmates of the workhouse the fact of a new burden having been imposed upon the parish, by setting up as loud a cry as could reasonably have been expected from a male infant who had not been possessed of that very useful appendage, a voice, for a much longer space of time than three minutes and a quarter. A lank tentacular appendage gripped the edge of the cylinder, another swayed in the air. |
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