Converse of object

• become: I can hardly go to bed without my new one - it has become an appendage.

• have: Most members of the group have four appendages, usually legs.

• use: You will also see how feeding takes place using the sieve-like appendages on the legs.

• possess: The abdomen is composed of varying numbers of segments; it bears no legs but may possess appendages, e.g. claspers used in mating.

• identify: We should always be wary of identifying appendages in the thought of smart theologians.

• say: To say this aerodynamic appendage is big, ranks as one of life's great understatements.

Preposition: at

• tip: There should be a worm like appendage at the tip which plays a vital role in spreading the ejaculate over the cervix at mating.

Adjective modifier

• abdominal: The other abdominal appendages are much reduced or absent.

• mere: Wives are not mere appendages or chattels of their husbands, rather the welfare of his wife must be a man's first concern.

• various: The rest is mostly various other swimming appendages, prominent for all of their fine filtering hairs.

• long: Even then I knew muscles had to be involved, but how could they be present in such extremely long, hairlike appendages?

• other: The rest is mostly various other swimming appendages, prominent for all of their fine filtering hairs.

• atrial: However, before its final and full placement in the atrium the mandril is withdrawn to avoid puncturing the thin-walled right atrial appendage.

Noun used with modifier

• skin: Some species have skin appendages that make them resemble kelp, or carry encrusting organisms that make them resemble coral or rocks.

• seed: Seed ontogeny studies on Aeschynanthus are complete, and are continuing on those other genera that possess seed appendages.

• swimming: These may be adapted for use as swimming appendages, as in seals, or as wings, as in bats.

• body: One or two species do not bury their eggs, but carry them about attached to their body appendages.

Preposition: in

• thought: We should always be wary of identifying appendages in the thought of smart theologians.

Preposition: of

• empire: Increasingly, the mass media are becoming major corporate concerns, rather than just appendages of business empires.

• monarch: In pre-1945 Romania, the personality cult was not only the appendage of the monarch.