extraneous

EXTRA'NEOUS, a. [L. extraneus.] Foreign; not belonging to a thing; existing without; not intrinsic; as, to separate gold from extraneous matter.

Relation is not contained in the real existence of things, but is extraneous and superinduced.

Extraneous fossils, organic remains; exuviae of organized beings, imbedded in the strata of the earth.