adventitious
a . 偶然的,外来的
偶然的,外来的
adventitious adj 1 :
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 "
adventitious \
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1 .
Added extrinsically ;
not essentially inherent .
Syn :
accidental ;
casual ;
incidental ;
additional ;
supervenient ;
foreign .
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1913 Webster PJC ]
To things of great dimensions ,
if we annex an adventitious idea of terror ,
they become without comparison greater . --
Burke .
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2 . (
Nat .
Hist .)
Out of the proper or usual place ;
as ,
adventitious buds or roots .
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3 . (
Bot .)
Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district ;
not fully naturalized ;
adventive ; --
applied to foreign plants .
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4 . (
Med .)
Acquired ,
as diseases ;
not hereditary . --
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5 . (
Med .)
Occurring in an unusual place or arising from an external source . --
Stedman 25 [
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n .
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1913 Webster ]
46 Moby Thesaurus words for "
adventitious ":
accessory ,
accidental ,
additional ,
adscititious ,
aleatory ,
appurtenant ,
ascititious ,
auxiliary ,
casual ,
causeless ,
chance ,
chancy ,
circumstantial ,
collateral ,
conditional ,
contingent ,
destinal ,
dicey ,
extra ,
fatal ,
fatidic ,
fluky ,
fortuitous ,
iffy ,
incidental ,
indeterminate ,
inessential ,
nonessential ,
occasional ,
provisional ,
risky ,
secondary ,
subsidiary ,
superadded ,
superfluous ,
supervenient ,
supplemental ,
supplementary ,
uncaused ,
undetermined ,
unessential ,
unexpected ,
unforeseeable ,
unforeseen ,
unlooked -
for ,
unpredictable
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