adjective
definition
Of or pertaining to a limb or appendage.
definition
Of or pertaining to the appendix.
synonyms
Examples of appendicular in a Sentence
The compound eyes of insects resemble so closely the similar organs in Crustaceans that there can hardly be reasonable doubt of their homology, and the primitively appendicular nature of the eyes in the latter class suggests that in the Hexapoda also they represent the appendages of an anterior (protocerebral) segment.
The most important evidence in favour of their appendicular nature is afforded by the phenomena of regeneration.
The relationship will help the radiographers extend their knowledge and skills to include reporting images of the appendicular skeleton.
But another and apparently insuperable objection may be raised - that the appendages of the ninth segment are the stylets, and that the gonapophyses cannot therefore be appendicular.
The leaf (phyllome) is an appendicular member only borne by a stem, but differing from it more or less obviously in form and development, though co-ordinate with it in complexity of structure.
Klapalek (1904) lays stress on a supposed distinction between appendicular and non-appendicular genital processes.