Associations to the word «Adventitious»
Noun
- Bud
- Root
- Embryo
- Sprout
- Regeneration
- Cutting
- Contaminant
- Stem
- Suture
- Propagation
- Shoot
- Contamination
- Lobe
- Purification
- Ornament
- Filament
- Bulb
- Roots
- Inhibition
- Serum
- Ev
- Clump
- Arising
- Induction
- Aid
- Colour
- Tissue
- Formation
- Virus
- Carbon
- Excess
- Circumstance
- Affinity
- Vaccine
- Leaf
- Plant
- Trunk
- Characterization
- Hormone
- Suspension
- Cell
- Organism
- Agent
- Organ
- Merit
- Growth
- Similarity
- Humour
- Occurrence
- Bark
- Requiring
- Saddle
- Obstacle
- Vector
- Advantage
- Attraction
- Oxygen
- Outline
- Metal
- Soil
- Testing
- Culture
- Stability
- Gene
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
ADVENTITIOUS, adjective. From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
ADVENTITIOUS, adjective. Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
ADVENTITIOUS, adjective. (genetics) (medicine) Not congenital; acquired.
ADVENTITIOUS, adjective. (biology) Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.
Dictionary definition
ADVENTITIOUS, adjective. 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".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.