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Meanings of supernumerary in English

Portuguese
comparsa
Catalan
extra
Spanish
figurante

A minor actor in crowd scenes.

        comparsa

        More than is needed, desired, or required.

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            Usage of supernumerary in English
            1
            Participants were purposefully selected by virtue of their experience of supernumerary status.
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            2
            Tooth agenesis and supernumerary teeth were the outcome variables of the study.
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            3
            This disagreeable duty fell to me and my fellow supernumerary Lieutenant Maurin.
            The Memoirs of General Baron de Marbot
            4
            Spoiling the neatest quarter-deck on the ocean, with a bloody supernumerary cabin!
            Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale
            5
            The general ordered a corps of supernumerary officers, under the command of Capt.
            A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a History ...
            6
            And then what a tremendous supernumerary cast of animals and insects there were!
            The Guardian
            7
            Saint-Arnaud was a general who had been a supernumerary at the Ambigu Theatre.
            The History of a Crime / The Testimony of an Eye-Witness
            8
            At the end of the war he returned home as a supernumerary excise-man.
            Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhym...
            9
            The occasion was too momentous for the presence of a supernumerary.
            Mrs. Warren's Daughter: A Story of the Woman's Movement
            10
            In the English universities, a supernumerary exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.
            A Collection of College Words and Customs
            11
            There was a well-formed and single pelvis, and the supernumerary legs were immovable.
            Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
            12
            They carry supernumerary features, and these it is that clash so.
            Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
            13
            Many persons have the supernumerary teeth parallel with their neighbors, anteriorly or posteriorly.
            Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
            14
            Other instances of supernumerary limbs will be found in Chapter VI.
            Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
            15
            But Dave pretended not to know that he was a supernumerary.
            The Cow Puncher
            16
            The supernumerary hair cells in the mutant mice showed an upregulation of Math1.
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            Translations for supernumerary
            Portuguese
            comparsa
            Supernumerary through the time
            Supernumerary across language varieties
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