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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Adventitious \Ad`ven*ti"tious\, a. [L. adventitius.] 1. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign. To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. --Burke. 2. (Nat. Hist.) Out of the proper or usual place as adventitious buds or roots. 3. (Bot.) Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants. 4. (Med.) Acquired, as diseases; accidental. -- {Ad`ven*ti"tious*ly}, adv -- {Ad`ven*ti"tious*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: adventitious adj : 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" [syn: {accidental}]
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