adventitious
adventitious is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.(Nat. Hist.) Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.
- 2.(Bot.) Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.
- 3.(Med.) Acquired, as diseases; accidental. -- Ad`ven*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Ad`ven*ti"tious*ness, n.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accident
- accidental
- according
- accordingly
- adscititious
- apparent
- appearance
- are
- ascititious
- attitude
- attribution
- being
- case
- causation
- certain
- circumstance
- circumstantial
- conditional
- conditionally
- conjunctive
- context
- contingency
- contingent
- crisis
- critical
- dependence
- ego
- emergence
- emergency
- environment
- event
- exigency
- external
- extraneous
- extrinsic
- extrinsical
- extrinsicality
- footing
- foreign
- fortuitous
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is adventitious.
- What is out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots called?
- What is accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants called?
- What is acquired, as diseases; accidental. -- Ad`ven*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Ad`ven*ti"tious*ness, n called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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