adnex
/ˈadnɛks/Grammar. Now rare
noun
Otto Jespersen's word for: a word (typically a verb) or group of words of secondary importance in a nexus or predicative relation.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Otto Jespersen (1860–1943), linguist. From ad- + classical Latin nexus nexus.
- lignocellulosic
- lignotuber
- lignum nephriticum
- lignum vitae
- ligroin
- ligula
- ligular
- ligulate
- ligule
- Liguria
- Ligurian
- Ligurian Sea
- ligustrum
- likable
- like
- -like
- like a bat out of hell
- like a bear with a sore head
- likeability
- likeable
- likeableness
- like a blue-arsed fly
- likeably
- like a bride's nightie
- like a bull at a gate