Hypertext Webster Gateway: "spurious"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Spurious \Spu"ri*ous\, a. [L. spurius.]
1. Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source
pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate.
2. Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue. ``Her
spurious firstborn.'' --Milton.
{Spurious primary}, or {Spurious quill} (Zo["o]l.), the
first, or outer, primary quill when rudimentary or much
reduced in size, as in certain singing birds.
{Spurious wing} (Zo["o]l.), the bastard wing, or alula.
Syn: Counterfeit; false; adulterate; supposititious;
fictitious; bastard. -- {Spu"ri*ous*ly}, adv. --
{Spu"ri*ous*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
spurious
adj 1: plausible but false; "specious reasoning"; "the spurious
inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"-
Ethel Albert [syn: {specious}]
2: born out of wedlock; "the dominions of both rulers passed
away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"- E.A.Freeman
[syn: {bastard}, {bastardly}, {misbegot}, {misbegotten}]
3: intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art" [syn: {inauthentic},
{unauthentic}]
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