ADVENTITIOUS
\ˌadvɪntˈɪʃəs], \ˌadvɪntˈɪʃəs], \ˌa_d_v_ɪ_n_t_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə_s]\
Definitions of ADVENTITIOUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
By Princeton University
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Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.
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Acquired, as diseases; accidental.
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Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; - applied to foreign plants.
By Oddity Software
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Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.
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Acquired, as diseases; accidental.
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Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; - applied to foreign plants.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
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Accidental: foreign.
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ADVENTITIOUSLY.
By Daniel Lyons
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ADVENTITIOUSLY.
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Not inherent; extrinsic; accidental.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Accidental; organs arising in abnormal positions.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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