Adventive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Not native to and not fully established in a new habitat or environment; locally or temporarily naturalized: an adventive weed.
  • n. An adventive organism.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. adventitious
  • adj. Of a plant that is not native, but was introduced by humans to a place and has since become naturalized.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Accidental.
  • adj. Adventitious.
  • n. A thing or person coming from without; an immigrant.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • . Accidental; adventitious.
  • Specifically In botany and zoology, only transient and locally spontaneous, not thoroughly naturalized: applied to introduced plants and animals.
  • n. One who or that which comes from without; an immigrant.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized
  • Equivalent
    strange    foreign   
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