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I am looking for a word that describes/means the appendices at the ends of limbs (namely hands and feet), meaning a singular one of them.

Bonus: a word that describes/means all of them

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For the plural, consider extremities. Its singular is extremity.

From en.wiktionary, extremity has a sense (among others) of “A hand or foot”.

(It also has a sense of “A limb”, ie an arm or leg, so may be imperfect for your needs.)

As noted in tunny's comment, collinsdictionary.com shows similar definitions, for extremities and extremity respectively, with emphasis added:

• (formal) hands and feet
• a limb, such as a leg, arm, or wing, or the part of such a limb farthest from the trunk

The terms appendage and appendages are relevant too, although rather less specific to hands and feet than are extremity and extremities. From en.wiktionary, appendage means “an external body part that projects from the body”. Most humans have five main appendages, ie head, arms, legs. Typical human males have another appendage, or member, sense 4. I don't know if breasts count as appendages. If we count fingers and toes as minor appendages, I suppose noses and ears should count as well.

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    The Collins dictionary agrees: collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/extremities
    – tunny
    Commented Nov 12, 2014 at 8:25
  • Sometimes I think languages get me cold. It's the same word in my native tongue (German) but I couldn't think of it.. thanks
    – dot_Sp0T
    Commented Nov 12, 2014 at 8:34
  • So according to Collins, angels must possess six extremities. (Good to know!) ...Unless they actually have four wings, of course. (Could they have an odd number of wings, I wonder?)
    – Erik Kowal
    Commented Nov 12, 2014 at 10:58
  • @Eric Kowal Angels have 4 or 6 wings. == Eze:1:5: Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. Eze:1:6: And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings. == Isa:6:2: Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
    – Greybeard
    Commented Mar 8, 2020 at 15:43

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