Definition of Appendages

1. Noun. (plural of appendage) ¹

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Definition of Appendages

1. appendage [n] - See also: appendage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Appendages

appellativeness
appellatives
appellatory
appellee
appellees
appellor
appellors
appels
appenage
appenages
append
appendage
appendaged
appendageless
appendagelike
appendages (current term)
appendages of eye
appendages of skin
appendages of the foetus
appendalgia
appendance
appendances
appendant
appendants
appendeces
appendectomies
appendectomy
appended
appendent
appendents

Literary usage of Appendages

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Copulatory apparatus of the second appendage. prosoma tic appendages. b. ... Anus with a pair of back- wardly migrated spinning appendages on each side of ..."

2. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"THE appendages OF THE ABDOMEN In the early embryonic stages of insects, ... But the appendages of the first seven abdominal segments are usually lost during ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"379-393. * On the Origin of Vertebrates, Journ. Anat. and Phys., vol. 37. 1903, p. 1981 text fig. 5. i On the appendages of ..."

4. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1897)
"pair of appendages are fused at their bases, and back of them terminates the ventral ... The abdomen is smooth and flat, showing no trace of appendages. ..."

5. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1892)
"(2) On the nature of Supernumerary appendages in Insects. By W. BATESON, MA, St John's College. [Abstract.] The author exhibited a number of specimens in ..."

6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1896)
"... into the oral chamber, we find a series of non- branchial appendages, viz. the velar and tentacular appendages, supplied by branches of the Vth nerve. ..."

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