Dictionary
ap•pend•ant
Pronunciation: (u-pen'dunt), [key]
—adj.
1. attached or suspended; annexed.
2. associated as an accompaniment or consequence: the salary appendant to a position.
3. Law.pertaining to a legal appendant.
—n.
1. a person or thing attached or added.
2. Law.any subordinate possession or right historically annexed to or dependent on a greater one and automatically passing with it, as by sale or inheritance. Also,ap•pend'ent.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
