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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Appendage \Ap*pend"age\, n.
     1. Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or
        greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to
        a house.
  
              Modesty is the appendage of sobriety. --Jer. Taylor.
  
     2. (Biol.) A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an
        external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates.
  
              Antenn[ae] and other appendages used for feeling.
                                                    --Carpenter.
  
     Syn: Addition; adjunct; concomitant.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  appendage
       n 1: an external body part that projects from the body; "it is
            important to keep the extremities warm" [syn: {extremity},
             {member}]
       2: a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an
          organism either animal or plant; "a bony process" [syn: {process},
           {outgrowth}]
       3: a part that is joined to something larger

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