SPURIOUS

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate.

2.
a.

Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue. "Her spurious firstborn." Milton. Spurious primary, or Spurious quill (Zoöl.), the first, or outer, primary quill when rudimentary or much reduced in size, as in certain singing birds. -- Spurious wing (Zoöl.), the bastard wing, or alula.


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