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adj. happening by chance; not inherent; occurring accidentally | ||||
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ADVENTITIOUS Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Adventitious
(a.)
Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.
(a.)
Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
(a.)
Acquired, as diseases; accidental.
(a.)
Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.
(a.)
Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.
(a.)
Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
(a.)
Acquired, as diseases; accidental.
(a.)
Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.
| WordNet 2.0 |
adventitious
Adjective
1. 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"
(synonym) accidental
(similar) extrinsic
Adjective
1. 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"
(synonym) accidental
(similar) extrinsic
| GLOSSARY OF ESOTERIC WORDS |
adventitious
1. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent.
2. (Biology) Out of the proper or usual place; as,
"adventitious buds or roots."
**The snag is that the play's inflamed and adventitious topicality may distract people from the timelessness of its deepest concerns. --Paul Taylor, "Afghanistan mon amour," [1]Independent,December 15, 2001
*I want first to argue that Nietzsche's contempt for democracy was an adventitious extra, inessential to his overall philosophical outlook. --Richard Rorty, "Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism"
**But his posing was mostly harmless,--as superficial as the swagger and millinery of the soldier--merely adventitious to the genuine strength and gallantry underneath.--J. F. A. Pyre, "Byron in Our Day," [2]The Atlantic, April 1907
***The trunk spores are actually adventitious roots that have erupted from the trunk in response to some stress or injury to the inner bark and are probably no reason for concern.--Scott Aker, "Expect More Dogwood Blossoms Next Year,"
[3]Washington Post, August 24, 2000
Adventitious comes from Latin adventicius, "coming from without, from outside sources," from the past participle of advenire, "to come towards or to; (of events) to happen," from ad- "to" + venire, "to come."
1. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent.
2. (Biology) Out of the proper or usual place; as,
"adventitious buds or roots."
**The snag is that the play's inflamed and adventitious topicality may distract people from the timelessness of its deepest concerns. --Paul Taylor, "Afghanistan mon amour," [1]Independent,December 15, 2001
*I want first to argue that Nietzsche's contempt for democracy was an adventitious extra, inessential to his overall philosophical outlook. --Richard Rorty, "Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism"
**But his posing was mostly harmless,--as superficial as the swagger and millinery of the soldier--merely adventitious to the genuine strength and gallantry underneath.--J. F. A. Pyre, "Byron in Our Day," [2]The Atlantic, April 1907
***The trunk spores are actually adventitious roots that have erupted from the trunk in response to some stress or injury to the inner bark and are probably no reason for concern.--Scott Aker, "Expect More Dogwood Blossoms Next Year,"
[3]Washington Post, August 24, 2000
Adventitious comes from Latin adventicius, "coming from without, from outside sources," from the past participle of advenire, "to come towards or to; (of events) to happen," from ad- "to" + venire, "to come."
| hEnglish - advanced version |
adventitious
adventitious
\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.
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.
similar words(1)
adventitious membrane
adventitious
\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.
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.
similar words(1)
adventitious membrane
| English Phonetics |
| JM Welsh <=> English Dictionary |
Dyfodol
Dyfodol = a. adventitious, coming future
Dyfodol = a. adventitious, coming future
ADVENTITIOUS Definition from Medicine Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Dictionary of Medicine (Shahram) |
adventitious
adjective
which is on the outside
adventitious bursa = see BURSA
adjective
which is on the outside
adventitious bursa = see BURSA
ADVENTITIOUS Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
| A Botanical Glossary of Taxonomic Terminology |
ADVENTITIOUS
applied to roots which do not arise from the radicle or its subdivisions, but from a node on the stem, etc
applied to roots which do not arise from the radicle or its subdivisions, but from a node on the stem, etc
ADVENTITIOUS Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries