| spur | a railway line connected to a trunk line |
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| spur | gear wheels that mesh in the same plane |
| spur | in response to an unforeseen need |
| spur | any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia |
| spur | a family of plants of order Geraniales |
| spur | bushy Eurasian shrub with glossy leathery oblong leaves and yellow-green flowers |
| spur | a stinging herb of tropical America |
| spur | intended to deceive |
| spur | born out of wedlock |
| spur | plausible but false |
| spur | 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 |
| spur | tuft of small stiff feathers on the first digit of a bird's wing |