adventitious
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌæd.vənˈtɪʃ.əs/, /ˌæd.vɛnˈtɪʃ.əs/
- (Northern California)
adventitious
- From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
- Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
- 2002, Colin Jones (historian), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 30:
- The adventitious disappearance of those nearer the throne than the duke had, moreover, set tongues awagging.
- 2002, Colin Jones (historian), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 30:
- (genetics, medicine) Not congenital; acquired.
- (biology) Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.
- 1985, R. M. T. Dahlgren, H. T. Clifford, & P. F. Yeo, The Families of the Monocotyledons, page 101
- The Velloziaceae have evolved a woody stem which is covered with a layer of adventitious roots mingled with the fibres of the old leaf sheaths;
- 1985, R. M. T. Dahlgren, H. T. Clifford, & P. F. Yeo, The Families of the Monocotyledons, page 101
- (from an external source) extrinsic
- (accidental, additional) accidental, spontaneous, sporadic; see also Thesaurus:accidental
- (not congenital) acquired
- French: acquis, adventice, exogène
- Italian: esogeno
- Portuguese: adventício
- Russian: вне́шний
- Spanish: exógeno
- French: adventice , aléatoire
- Italian: aleatorio
- Portuguese: adventício
- Russian: случа́йный
- Spanish: aleatorio
- French: ectopique, auxiliaire, adventice
- Italian: ectopico, ausiliario, avventizio
- Portuguese: adventício
- Spanish: ectópico, adventicio, auxiliar
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