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Definition of Adventitious
1. Adjective. Associated by chance and not an integral part. "They had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character"
Definition of Adventitious
1. a. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
Definition of Adventitious
1. Adjective. From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign. ¹
2. Adjective. Accidental, additional, appearing casually. ¹
3. Adjective. (genetics medicine) Not congenital; acquired. ¹
4. Adjective. (biology) Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adventitious
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Adventitious
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Adventitious
Literary usage of Adventitious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1898)
"Mr. Graves's Drosera developed the adventitious buds in a moist chamber. young
... The occurrence of the adventitious buds in such wet places suggests that ..."
2. Institutes of Natural Law: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures on by Thomas Rutherforth (1832)
"Those are called natural rights which or adventitious. belong to a man by the
... adventitious rights are such as presuppose some act of man from which they ..."
3. Principles of Moral and Political Science by Adam Ferguson (1792)
"SECTION Of Rights adventitious. VI. • AN the term adventitious is implied a ...
in which the thing adventitious was yet u—"*~-J future ; a time in which it ..."
4. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1886)
"LAST year I called the attention of the Association to the Tact that this dodder
produces its flowers upon short, adventitious branches, •which themselves ..."
5. Welfare as an Economic Quantity by George Pendleton Watkins (1915)
"It is a permissible personification to say that adventitious utility assumes masks.
There is, of course, no hypocrisy involved, and those who actively ..."
6. The Christian Examiner (1830)
"This perfect justice distinguishes our moral from our adventitious ... adventitious I
call all the joys or pains that flow from other sources than a ..."
7. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"The adventitious roots observed spring from the free border of a longitudinal
crack where the trunk forks, the edges of the wound having been healed for ..."
8. On the Germination, Development, and Fructification of the Higher by Wilhelm Hofmeister, Frederick Currey (1862)
"Ramification is caused solely by adventitious buds. ... The rudiment of the
adventitious bud appears long before that of the vascular ..."
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