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Appendage vs Appendant - What's the difference?

appendage | appendant |

As nouns the difference between appendage and appendant

is that appendage is an external body part that projects from the body while appendant is anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.

As an adjective appendant is

attached as an appendage.

appendage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • an external body part that projects from the body
  • a natural prolongation or projection from a part of any organism
  • a part that is joined to something larger

    • Synonyms

    * extremity, member * outgrowth, process

    appendant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • attached as an appendage
  • annexed; concomitant
    • a seal appendant to a paper
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity.
  • (legal) Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house.
    • (Wharton)
    (Coke)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.
  • (legal) An inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.
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