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What does extraneous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word extraneous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; foreign
  2. Not essential or intrinsic
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Occasionally found in some knees, it is a ridge or fold of extraneous soft tissue with no known biomechanical function.
It is an unhappy book, and consequently I could not afford to submit to the temptation of the florid and extraneous.
This norm encourages people to add a lot of extraneous self-indulgent stuff because they see the guests as a captive audience.
Broca argued that the anthropologists could debate monogenism or polygenism without extraneous preoccupations.
Everyone did quite well on their own, as a matter of fact, and I was extraneous, to say the least.
Later, of course, his Honour turns to consider this evidence which was right at the heart, far from being extraneous.

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