OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 21366

adventitious

/ˌæd.vənˈtɪʃ.əs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
adventicio
From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
adventicio
Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
The adventitious disappearance of those nearer the throne than the duke had, moreover, set tongues awagging.
The discovery of the art of making pottery was probably in all cases adventitious, the clay being first used for some other purpose.
adventicio
Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.
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;