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Noun: appendix (appendices,appendixes)  u'pen-diks
  1. Supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a book, article or document
     
  2. A vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the caecum and that resembles a small pouch
    - vermiform appendix, vermiform process, cecal appendage

Derived forms: appendixes, appendices

Type of: addendum, appendage, outgrowth, postscript, process, supplement

Part of: blind gut, caecum [Brit, Cdn], cecum [N. Amer]

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