Adventitious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Not inherent but added extrinsically. See Synonyms at accidental.
  • adj. Biology Of or belonging to a structure that develops in an unusual place: adventitious roots.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
  • adj. Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
  • adj. Not congenital; acquired.
  • adj. Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
  • adj. Out of the proper or usual place.
  • adj. Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.
  • adj. Acquired, as diseases; accidental.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Added extrinsically; not springing from the essence of the subject, but from another source; foreign; accidentally or casually acquired: applied to that which does not properly belong to a subject, but which is superadded or adopted, as in a picture or other work of art, to give it additional power or effect.
  • In botany and zoology, appearing casually, or in an abnormal or unusual position or place; occurring as a straggler or away from its natural position or habitation; adventive.
  • In anatomy, of the nature of adventitia: as, the adventitious coat of an artery.
  • In phytogeography, naturalized from a distant formation: opposed to *vicine. A term proposed by Pound and Clements. Compare adventitious, 2.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. associated by chance and not an integral part
    • Equivalent
    extrinsic   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    additional    supervenient    foreign    adventive    accidental   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    fortuitous    extrinsic    accidental    extraneous    incidental   
     
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