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Meanings of supernumerary in English
More than is needed, desired, or required.
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Usage of supernumerary in English
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Participants were purposefully selected by virtue of their experience of supernumerary status.
2
Tooth agenesis and supernumerary teeth were the outcome variables of the study.
3
This disagreeable duty fell to me and my fellow supernumerary Lieutenant Maurin.
4
Spoiling the neatest quarter-deck on the ocean, with a bloody supernumerary cabin!
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The general ordered a corps of supernumerary officers, under the command of Capt.
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And then what a tremendous supernumerary cast of animals and insects there were!
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Saint-Arnaud was a general who had been a supernumerary at the Ambigu Theatre.
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At the end of the war he returned home as a supernumerary excise-man.
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The occasion was too momentous for the presence of a supernumerary.
10
In the English universities, a supernumerary exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.
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There was a well-formed and single pelvis, and the supernumerary legs were immovable.
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They carry supernumerary features, and these it is that clash so.
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Many persons have the supernumerary teeth parallel with their neighbors, anteriorly or posteriorly.
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Other instances of supernumerary limbs will be found in Chapter VI.
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But Dave pretended not to know that he was a supernumerary.
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The supernumerary hair cells in the mutant mice showed an upregulation of Math1.
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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