meaning of adventitious
1. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
2. Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.
3. Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.
4. Acquired, as diseases; accidental.
5. 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
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