supernumerary

IPA: supɝnˈumɝɛri

A person who works in a group, association, or public office without forming part of the regular staff (the numerary).
(film, theater) An extra or walk-on, often non-speaking, in a film or play; a spear carrier.
Something which is beyond the prescribed or standard amount or number.
(zoology) An animal which has not formed a pair bond and is therefore single.
(Roman Catholicism) A married man or woman who is a secular member of Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic religious institution.

Greater in number than.
Beyond the prescribed or standard amount or number; excess, extra.
(biology, specifically) Of an organ or structure: additional to what is normally present.
Beyond what is necessary; redundant.

Examples of "supernumerary" in Sentences

The rare phenomenon is known as a supernumerary phantom limb.
Fraser-Moleketi said the word "supernumerary" was no longer used by government.
I see many writers here consider a two thirds supernumerary requirement to raise any taxes as a ‘problem’.
Doctors call the extra appendages "supernumerary" body parts and these can be found on some famous people in history.
Another supernumerary was the joiner, a rating only carried in the seventeenth century on great ships with much fancy work about the poop.
For as for that part which seemeth supernumerary, which is prophecy, it is but divine history, which hath that prerogative over human, as the narration may be before the fact as well as after.
It will be noticed that a point with which Ellen Key and the leaders of the new German woman's movement specially concern themselves is the affectional needs of the "supernumerary" woman and the legitimation of her children.
The first was the acceptance of "supernumerary" religious, that is of a larger number than the resources of the convent warranted; hence it was but just that the amount required for their maintenance should be demanded of them.
The existence of the supernumerary was a puzzle, but Olbers solved it for the moment by suggesting that Ceres and Pallas, as he called his captive, might be fragments of a quondam planet, shattered by internal explosion or by the impact of a comet.