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appendage

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Số nhiều: appendages

This term carries a clinical or detached tone, stripping away the emotional or functional identity of a limb. While "arm" or "leg" describes a specific tool for movement, "appendage" treats the body part as a biological attachment, often emphasizing its strangeness or mechanical nature in non-human species. When used for inanimate objects, the word implies a lack of integration. It suggests that the added part is subordinate, secondary, or perhaps even an afterthought, creating a sense of imbalance between the primary structure and the addition.

Countable when referring to a specific limb or a physical addition to a building.

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Danh từ

[a projecting part of an animal]

A projecting part of an invertebrate or other animal, such as a limb, antenna, or feeler.

"The crab used its jointed appendage to scavenge for food on the ocean floor."

Danh từ

[an auxiliary part]

"The small garden shed was merely an appendage to the main house."

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