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Definition of Adventitiously

Adventitiously
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.

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- trunks via adventitious bud formation on a single root system.[citation needed] Some leaves develop adventitious buds, which then form adventitious roots,...
- two main root system types: taproot and fibrous, with variations like adventitious, aerial, and buttress roots, each serving specific functions. Characterized...
- mistaken for native species. Depending on the question and perspective, adventitious plants are divided into different subcategories: Archaeophytes were introduced...
- classified as "adventitious protection" by Edward Bagnall Poulton in 1890, and as "adventitious concealing coloration" or "adventitious resemblance" by...
- Langley's Adventitious Angles is a puzzle in which one must infer an angle in a geometric diagram from other given angles. It was posed by Edward Mann...
- Basal shoots, root sprouts, adventitious shoots, and suckers are words for various kinds of shoots that grow from adventitious buds on the base of a tree...
- Insectivorous plants might consume insects and other animal material trapped adventitiously. However, most species to which such food represents an important part...
- dormant buds break annually in a sympodial pattern. If flowers develop adventitiously, they form similarly to epicormic tissues and may be reactive to immediate...
- gametophyte that was produced from a cell that did not complete meiosis. In adventitious embryony (sporophytic apomixis), an embryo is formed directly (not from...
- Dichloroacetylene (DCA) is an organochlorine compound with the formula C2Cl2. It is a colorless, explosive liquid that has a sweet and "disagreeable" odor...