Appendix

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ap=pen=dix

CIDE DICTIONARY

Appendix, n. [L. appendix, -dicis, fr. appendere. See Append.].

•  Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant.  [1913 Webster]

  "Normandy became an appendix to England."  [1913 Webster]
•  Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished from supplement, which is intended to supply deficiencies and correct inaccuracies.  [1913 Webster]
•  The vermiform appendix.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Syn. -- See Supplement.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Appendix, n. (pl. appendices; appendixes)
1 (in full vermiform appendix) Anat. a small outgrowth of tissue forming a tube-shaped sac attached to the lower end of the large intestine.
2 subsidiary matter at the end of a book or document.

Etymology

L appendix -icis f. appendere APPEND

THESAURUS

Appendix

PS, Parthian shot, abdomen, accessory, addendum, adjunct, affix, afterthought, allonge, anus, appurtenance, back matter, blind gut, bowels, brain, cecum, chorus, coda, codicil, colon, colophon, commentary, conclusion, consequence, continuance, continuation, double take, duodenum, dying words, enclitic, endocardium, entrails, envoi, epilogue, follow-through, follow-up, foregut, giblets, gizzard, guts, heart, hindgut, infix, innards, inner mechanism, insides, interlineation, internals, interpolation, intestine, inwards, jejunum, kidney, kishkes, large intestine, last words, liver, liver and lights, lung, marginalia, midgut, note, parting shot, perineum, peroration, postface, postfix, postlude, postscript, prefix, proclitic, pump, pylorus, rectum, refrain, rider, scholia, second thought, sequel, sequela, sequelae, sequelant, sequent, sequitur, small intestine, spleen, stomach, subscript, suffix, supplement, swan song, tag, tail, ticker, tripes, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, works

ROGET THESAURUS

Appendix

Sequel

N sequel, suffix, successor, tail, queue, train, wake, trail, rear, retinue, suite, appendix, postscript, epilogue, peroration, codicil, continuation, sequela, appendage, tail piece, heelpiece, tag, more last words, colophon, aftercome, aftergrowth, afterpart, afterpiece, aftercourse, afterthought, aftergame, arriere pensee, second thoughts, outgrowth.