spurious : Idioms & Phrases

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spurious correlation

  • noun a correlation between two variables (e.g., between the number of electric motors in the home and grades at school) that does not result from any direct relation between them (buying electric motors will not raise grades) but from their relation to other variables
WordNet

Spurious primary, ∨ Spurious quill

  • (Zoöl.), the first, or outer, primary quill when rudimentary or much reduced in size, as in certain singing birds.
Webster 1913

Spurious wing

  • noun tuft of small stiff feathers on the first digit of a bird's wing
    alula; bastard wing.
WordNet
  • (Zoöl.), the bastard wing, or alula.
Webster 1913