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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: adventitious (0.00884 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to adventitious.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: adventitious 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]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Adventitious Adventitious \Ad`ven*ti"tious\, a. [L. adventitius.] 1. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign. [1913 Webster] To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. --Burke. [1913 Webster] 2. (Nat. Hist.) Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots. [1913 Webster] 3. (Bot.) Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants. [1913 Webster] 4. (Med.) Acquired, as diseases; accidental. [1913 Webster] -- Ad`ven*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Ad`ven*ti"tious*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

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