Definition of adventitious Adventitious
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We found 10 definitions of adventitious from 4 different sources.
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What does adventitious mean?
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| adventitious - 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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Wiktionary 
- adventitious (Adjective)
From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign. - adventitious (Adjective)
Accidental, additional, appearing casually. - adventitious (Adjective)
Not congenital; acquired. - adventitious (Adjective)
Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- adventitious (a.)
Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign. - adventitious (a.)
Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots. - adventitious (a.)
Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants. - adventitious (a.)
Acquired, as diseases; accidental.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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adventitious
ad-vent-ish′us, adj. accidental: additional: foreign: appearing casually.—adv. Adventi′tiously.—adj. Advent′ive (Bacon), adventitious.—n. a thing or person coming from without. [See Advent.]
