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Spurious quill
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.

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- feathers, as Chatterjee originally interpreted structures on the arm to be quill ****s, the attachment point for flight feathers found in some modern birds...
- These are not contained in the following list. Also not included are spurious inventions - technologies which are generally considered to not possess...
- applied to creationist attempts to re****e the theory of evolution, by way of spurious arguments purportedly based in probability or complexity theory, such as...
- Greener, W.H. Greener, A.H. Greener etc. are several examples of names of spurious weapons. Note that J.H. Greener and Albert Greener were two brothers of...
- brother with their theories about them—namely, that the moon steals her spurious light from the sun (compare the Phocylidea, where it is stated that she...
- that it promoted the violent re-****ertion of the tartan, sanctioned by a spurious sense of history, in the next century. The tumultuous events of 18th-century...
- Wadding was in Rome, and updated in the 1890s. Whilst containing a number of spurious works, as of 2021, with the new Vatican Edition of Scotus yet to be completed...
- sensitivity or contamination. Contamination with extraneous DNA can lead to spurious products and is addressed with lab protocols and procedures that separate...
- 1977) ISBN 978-0-8240-9955-8 George Orwell, First Edition and Price Guide Quill and Brush. (2004) George Orwell bibliography at Wikipedia's sister projects...
- Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire. New York: Morrow Quill Paperbacks, 52. ISBN 0-688-08093-6. Goodwin, Jason (1998). Lords of the...