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Appendage

Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.

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Acromion 76% connected

The outer extremity of the shoulder blade.

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Ala 76% connected

A winglike organ, or part.

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Apophysis 76% connected

A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.

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Appendicle 76% connected

A small appendage.

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Appendix 76% connected

Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant.

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Arista 76% connected

An awn.

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Caruncle 76% connected

Alt. of Caruncula

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Caruncula 76% connected

A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye.

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Chela 76% connected

The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida.

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Chelicera 76% connected

One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers o…

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Cirrus 76% connected

A tendril or clasper.

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Claw 76% connected

A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.

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Condyle 76% connected

A bony prominence; particularly, an eminence at the end of a bone bearing a rounded articular surface; -- sometimes applied also to a concave articul…

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Crest 76% connected

A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthe…

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Dactyl 76% connected

A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/, E. mer\b6cifu…

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Digit 76% connected

One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe.

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Eminence 76% connected

That which is eminent or lofty; a high ground or place; a height.

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Enation 76% connected

Any unusual outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a petal; also, the capacity or act of producing such an outgrowth.

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Epicondyle 76% connected

A projection on the inner side of the distal end of the numerus; the internal condyle.

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Excrescence 76% connected

An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a tr…

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Fang 76% connected

To catch; to seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch.

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Fetlock 76% connected

The cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse and similar animals. Also, the joint…

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Fimbria 76% connected

A fringe, or fringed border.

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Fin 76% connected

To carve or cut up, as a chub.

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Flagellum 76% connected

A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.

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Grip 76% connected

The griffin.

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Hair 76% connected

The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of…

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Handle 76% connected

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

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Hold 76% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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Horn 76% connected

A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The…

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Limb 76% connected

A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.

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Mastoid 76% connected

Resembling the nipple or the breast; -- applied specifically to a process of the temporal bone behind the ear.

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Mastoidal 76% connected

Same as Mastoid.

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Metaphysis 76% connected

Change of form; transformation.

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Nipper 76% connected

One who, or that which, nips.

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Olecranon 76% connected

The large process at the proximal end of the ulna which projects behind the articulation with the humerus and forms the bony prominence of the elbow.

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Papilla 76% connected

Any minute nipplelike projection; as, the papillae of the tongue.

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Parapodium 76% connected

One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; -- called also foot tubercle.

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Pleopod 76% connected

One of the abdominal legs of a crustacean. See Illust. under Crustacea.

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Pseudopod 76% connected

Any protoplasmic filament or irregular process projecting from any unicellular organism, or from any animal or plant call.

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Pseudopodium 76% connected

Same as Pseudopod.

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Ridge 76% connected

The back, or top of the back; a crest.

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Spicule 76% connected

A minute, slender granule, or point.

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Spiculum 76% connected

Same as Spicule.

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Spine 76% connected

A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn.

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Style 76% connected

An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded,…

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Swimmeret 76% connected

One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They ar…

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Tail 76% connected

Limitation; abridgment.

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Tailpiece 76% connected

A piece at the end; an appendage.

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Tentacle 76% connected

A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an o…

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Trochanter 76% connected

One of two processes near the head of the femur, the outer being called the great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter.

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Tubercle 76% connected

A small knoblike prominence or excrescence, whether natural or morbid; as, a tubercle on a plant; a tubercle on a bone; the tubercles appearing on th…

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Tuberosity 76% connected

The state of being tuberous.

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Villus 76% connected

One of the minute papillary processes on certain vascular membranes; a villosity; as, villi cover the lining of the small intestines of many animals…

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Part 76% connected

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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Portion 76% connected

That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.

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Append 74% connected

To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.

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Append 74% connected

To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.

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Supplement 74% connected

That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply.

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Supplement 74% connected

That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply.

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Extremity 92% connected

The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country.

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Member 92% connected

To remember; to cause to remember; to mention.

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Outgrowth 92% connected

That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.

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Process 92% connected

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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