Meaning of ADVENTITIOUS
| Pronunciation: | | `advun'tishus
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| | Definition: | | [adj] associated by chance and not an integral part; "poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form"- Frederick W. Robertson; "they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character" |
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| | Synonyms: | | accidental, extrinsic |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ad`ven*ti"tious\, a. [L. adventitius.]
1. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental
or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
To things of great dimensions, if we annex an
adventitious idea of terror, they become without
comparison greater. --Burke.
2. (Nat. Hist.) Out of the proper or usual place; as,
adventitious buds or roots.
3. (Bot.) Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country
or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied
to foreign plants.
4. (Med.) Acquired, as diseases; accidental. --
{Ad`ven*ti"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Ad`ven*ti"tious*ness}, n.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Describes roots or shoots or other parts that grow in an uncharacteristic place on a plant (such as roots growing from leaves). |
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| | Related Terms: | | accessory, accidental, additional, adscititious, aleatory, appurtenant, ascititious, auxiliary, casual, causeless, chance, chancy, circumstantial, collateral, conditional, contingent, destinal, dicey, extra, fatal, fatidic, fluky, fortuitous, iffy, incidental, indeterminate, inessential, nonessential, occasional, provisional, risky, secondary, subsidiary, superadded, superfluous, supervenient, supplemental, supplementary, uncaused, undetermined, unessential, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unpredictable |
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