illegitimate : Idioms & Phrases


illegitimate child

  • noun the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
    bastard; whoreson; illegitimate; by-blow; love child.
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illegitimate enterprise

  • noun an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit
    racket; fraudulent scheme.
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Illegitimate fertilization, ∨ Illegitimate union

  • (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
Webster 1913