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appendage

/uh-pen-dij/US // əˈpɛn dɪdʒ //UK // (əˈpɛndɪdʒ) //

附属物,附肢,附属品,附属肢体

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Definitions

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

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Examples

  • The smells are picked up by the palps, those long sensory appendages around the mouth.

  • The appendage, magnified 40 times, was photographed in layers with a laser to reconstruct the tongue in three dimensions.

  • When the subjects moved their arms, a robotic appendage behind them simultaneously touched their backs in the same fashion.

  • Underneath all those aerodynamic appendages, the mechanical bits have been similarly stimulated, taking friction out here and quickening response times there.

  • Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, cells invaded by the coronavirus can sprout probing appendages bedecked with viral bits.

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

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

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

  • Their dresses were made as in England; but the pattern of the cloth, or some appendage to it, was different.

  • Scarcely had we reached our first stage (about seven miles), before every appendage of a metropolitan city had disappeared.

  • Thus, even the discovery which made chemistry a science, has attached to it in their award this feeble appendage.

  • The Celtic Church had sunk into being a mere appendage of the wild tribes it had once tried to tame.

  • The caudal appendage of the juvenile and female is made up of three small joints tapering to a blunt end.