The rare phenomenon is known as a supernumerary phantom limb. From Wordnik.com. [Unexplained Mysteries] Reference
Fraser-Moleketi said the word "supernumerary" was no longer used by government. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Doctors call the extra appendages "supernumerary" body parts and these can be found on some famous people in history. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Until now he had seemed an impassive supernumerary. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference
Hurst as a supernumerary passenger at some hour unknown. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference
All supernumerary staff were sent to the base at Harfleur. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 6th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry France, April 1915-November 1918] Reference
He threw up lectures and joined our battalion as a supernumerary. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
At the end of the war he returned home as a supernumerary excise-man. From Wordnik.com. [Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]] Reference
In these cases the supernumerary pedicels are often brightly coloured. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Here the supernumerary organ was placed between two of the long stamens. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The best supernumerary officers may be made use of as far as they will go. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
Meneptah raised his hand and the supernumerary ministers left the chamber. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Graces, and the Elements, with a supernumerary one of the Seraphic order. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series] Reference
In addition to this, each was supplied with supernumerary yak tails, one on either side. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
The number of parts in the supernumerary structures is generally less than the normal flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The direction of this supernumerary apple was the exact opposite of that of the primary fruit. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Worst of all, the prospects of promotion seemed absolutely hopeless; I was a supernumerary Second. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference
The worthy lumbermen, and our supernumerary, the damster's son, staggered along slowly with our traps. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
In the spring of 1842, one of these caravans started with which Kit Carson traveled as a supernumerary. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself] Reference
In this case probably the two supernumerary stamens were petals which had assumed an anther-like character. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The supernumerary spathes are not always on the same level, but may be separated by a considerable interval. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
For the formation of supernumerary leaves on the surface of the normal one, see Multiplication and Hypertrophy. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
But Bartlett can't have meant the display, the strutting of stuff, to make his verbal arguments look supernumerary. From Wordnik.com. [Earthquakes in London; The Good Soldier; FIB] Reference
I had found these would be quite enough for the supernumerary-Sepoy line of life, and it was well for me they were. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859] Reference
Among such blemishes may be mentioned moles, hair-lips, deficient or supernumerary fingers, toes, and other characteristics. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
I felt myself living in a series of pictures, a sort of supernumerary in a theatre, where they changed the play every night. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873] Reference
I thus found myself a supernumerary -- a character that did not suit me, but I was obliged to content myself for the present. From Wordnik.com. [Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I.] Reference
He who, in a proper state of things, would have been the representative of living spiritual principles, is a mere supernumerary. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
A company of players from Norwich frequently visited that nice little town, and in one of them appeared, as a supernumerary, Ann. From Wordnik.com. [Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913] Reference
Although twenty per cent. of the labouring population were turned adrift in that locality, not one supernumerary was disemployed. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference
About halfway up the tube, on the inner surface, are given off five supernumerary petals, opposite to as many lobes of the corolla. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
His appearance, therefore, is apt to occasion some little stir at the tea-table of a farm-house, and the addition of a supernumerary. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools] Reference
In this fantastic group, I occupied the position of supernumerary officer and interpreter; but accustomed, as I had been, to wholesome. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
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