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adj. Lacking authenticity or validity in essence or origin; not genuine; false.

adj. Of illegitimate birth.

adj. Botany Similar in appearance but unlike in structure or function. Used of plant parts.

adj. false, not authentic, not genuine

adj. bastardly, illegitimate

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

adj. Not legitimate; bastard.

Not legitimate; bastard: as, spurious issue.

Not proceeding from the true source or from the source pretended; not being what it pretends or appears to be; not genuine; counterfeit; false; adulterated.

In zoology:

False; resembling a part or organ, but not having its function: as, spurious eyes or limbs.

Having the functions of an organ, but morphologically different from it: as, the spurious legs, or prolegs, of a caterpillar.

Aborted or changed so that the normal functions no longer exist: as, the spurious or aborted front legs of certain butterflies.

Erroneous; incorrectly established: as, a spurious genus or species. See pseudogenus.

In botany, false; counterfeit; apparent only.

Synonyms Spurious, Supposititious, and Counterfeit agree in expressing intent to deceive, except that counterfeit may be used with figurative lightness where no dishonorable purpose is implied. Spurious, not genuine, expresses strong disapprobation of the deception, successful or attempted. Supposititious applies only to that which is substituted for the genuine; it thus expresses a class under the spurious: a supposititious work of Athanasius is not one that is supposed to have been written by him, but one that is palmed off upon the public as being the genuine text of a work that he is known to have written; a supposititious child is a changeling; was the Tichborne claimant the genuine or a supposititious Sir Roger? Counterfeit applies also to a class under the spurious—namely, to that which is made in attempted imitation of something else: as, a counterfeit coin, bank-note, signature. Chatterton's manuscripts were spurious, but not supposititious; as they were not exact imitations of any particular manuscripts of early days, they would hardly be called counterfeit. See factitious.

adj. intended to deceive

adj. born out of wedlock

adj. plausible but false

"Perhaps the most overwhelming distortion of the BBC in its coverage of Israel and Palestine is what I term "spurious equivalence": that the Palestinians and Israelis are two equal sides "at war" over "disputed" territory and may the best man win."

imitative    counterfeit    illegitimate    false    spurious quill   

spurious ocellus    spurious vein    spurious pareira    spurious proposition    spurious claw    spurious hermaphrodites    spurious dissepiment    spurious primary    spurious sarsaparilla    spurious baltimore   

bastard    fictitious    supposititious    false    counterfeit    adulterate    illegitimate    pretend   

curious    furious    injurious    luxurious   

fictitious    false    erroneous    fraudulent    counterfeit    genuine    bogus    authentic    imperfect    specious