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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adventitious \Ad'ven*ti"tious\, adjective [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}, adverb -- {Ad'ven*ti"tious*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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" [syn: {accidental}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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