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appendant: Meaning and Definition of

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. pertaining to a legal appendant.
—n.
  1. a person or thing attached or added.
  2. any subordinate possession or right historically annexed to or dependent on a greater one and automatically passing with it, as by sale or inheritance.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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