(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.
An adjective "supernumerary" refers to something that is beyond the prescribed or standard amount or number, or an additional organ or structure in biology.
Beyond what is necessary; redundant.