Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small appendage
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small appendage.
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- noun A small
appendage .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small appendage
Etymologies
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Examples
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For your declaration of Vieta's appendicle it is so full and plaine, as you haue aboundantlie satisfyed my desire, for wch I yield you the thankes I ought, onlie in a word tell me whether by it he can solue Copernicus, 5 cap: of his 5. booke.
Thomas Hariot Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886 1885
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M. Pontedera believes it designed to lubricate the vegetable uterus, and compares the horn-like nectaries of some flowers to the appendicle of the caecum intestinum of animals.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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When the pitch and height of men’s attainments in this world is but a consectary, an appendicle of it, what must this kingdom be in itself, when all these things follow as attendants?
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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