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Definition: Adventitious |
AdventitiousAdjective1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "adventitious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1642. (references) |
Etymology: Adventitious \Ad`ven*ti"tious\, adjective. [Latin expression adventitius.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Biology & Biotechnology | Pertaining to a plant part that develops outside the usual order of time, position, or tissue. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Of a plant part i. e. root, shoot or bud that develops from secondary cambium on the stem, on an older branch or on roots. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: AdventitiousSynonym: accidental (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Chance 2 | Adjective: casual, fortuitous, accidental, adventitious, causeless, incidental, contingent, uncaused, undetermined, indeterminate; random, statistical; possible; unintentional. |
Circumstance | Adjective: circumstantial; given, conditional, provisional; critical; modal; contingent, incidental; adventitious; (extrinsic); limitative. |
Extrinsicality | Adjective: derived from without; objective; extrinsic, extrinsical; extraneous; (foreign); modal, adventitious; ascititious, adscititious; incidental, accidental, nonessential; contingent, fortuitous. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Adventitious |
| English words defined with "adventitious": accidental, Accidental lights, Adventitious membrane, adventitious root ♦ Episodical ♦ genus Pothos, genus Scindapsus ♦ root climber ♦ Scindapsus ♦ Woad-waxen. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "adventitious": branch root ♦ coppice shoot ♦ Rales ♦ sap shoot, stilt root, stool shoot ♦ tree age ♦ unit coal ♦ water shoot. (references) |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson | The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. |
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John Locke | 1690 | And if there be any original defects, or adventitious ones introduced by time, or corruption; it is not an easy thing to get them changed, even when all the world sees there is an opportunity for it. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Italy | In both cases, a zero tolerance is expected for adventitious biotech presence. (references) |
Political Economy | Italy | Imports of non-GMO corn and soybean seed for planting were also hindered over concerns of adventitious biotech presence. (references) |
AUSTRIA | The Austrian government went well beyond EU requirements in ordering corn to be plowed under in 2001 when it was found to contain adventitious trace amounts of EU-approved GMO varieties. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Adventitious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Adventitious" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 24 | 71,196 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "adventitious": Adventitious membrane ♦ adventitious root. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
adventitious cell | 2 |
adventitious root | 2 |
adventitious | 2 |
adventitious breath sound | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "adventitious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | sekondêr (accessory, secondary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i rastit (casual, chance, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, incident, incidental, makeshift, occasional, odd, passing, random, scratch, stray, transient), i jashtëm (apparent, exterior, extern, external, foreign, out, outdoor, outer, outlying, outside, outward, oversea, overseas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ناشئ في موضع من النبات لم يعتاد ظهوره فيه, عارض (disagree, discountenance, dissent, exhibitor, join issue with, mind, negative, nix, not to hold with, object, oppose, part company, precarious, protest, take issue wit), عرضي (accidental, casual, circumstantial, episodic, extraneous, extrinsic, incident, incidental, occasional, odd, passing, symptomatic, transverse, venial), طارئ (casual, contingency, emergency, fortuitous, imperious, incidental, pressing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | страничен (adventive, aisle, by, circumstantial, collateral, exterior, external, incidental, indirect, lateral, marginal, oblique, off, outside, postern, side), случаен (accidental, adventive, arbitrary, by, casual, chance, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, idle, incidental, long, lucky, occasional, odd, pickup, precarious, promiscuous, random, sporadic, stray, unplanned, unsystematic), чужд (adventive, alien, exterior, extraneous, extrinsic, foreign, outside, Peregrin, strange, unfamiliar, vicarious), външен (adventive, exterior, external, extraneous, extrinsic, foreign, formal, inorganic, ostentatious, outdoor, outer, out-of-door, outside, outward, over, overall, oversea, overseas, showy, surface). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 偶然 (Accidental, Casual, Casualness), 不定 (indefinite, indeterminate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | náhodný (accidental, arbitrary, casual, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, hit or miss, incidental, passing, random, stray). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | adventiv, tilfældig (accidental, chance, random). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | adventief, accessorisch (accessory, secondary), accessoor (accessory, secondary), toevallig (accidental, by accident, by chance, chance, occasional, random), incidenteel (accidental, chance, incidental, random), býkomstig (accessory, accidental, secondary), býkomend (accessory, accidental, additional, secondary), býbehorend (accessory, adequate, secondary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | adventiivinen, myöhäiskasvuinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | accidentel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zufällig (accidental, accidentally, by any chance, by chance, by hazard, casual, casually, chance, coincidental, coincidentally, fortuitous, fortuitously, haphazard, incidental, incidentally, on occasion, perchance, perchancely, random, stochastic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αυτοφυής, τυχαίοσ (accidental, casual, chance, circumstantial, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, occasional, random, scratch, stray). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | véletlen (accidental, casual, chance, coincidence, contingent, fortuitous, fortune, hap, haphazard, happenstance, hazard, incidental, luck, occasional, promiscuous, random, unwitting), gyorsító (accelerator, accessory, hair-trigger, secondary), esetleges (accidental, aleatory, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, occurrent, promiscuous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | tilviljunarkenndur (accidental, chance, random). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | avventizio (occasional, temporary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 우연. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | taghyrtagh (accidental, casual, circumstantial, fluky, fortuitous, incidental). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | aksidental (accidental, chance, random). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adventitiousay adventício (accidental, external, foreign, outer, outside), adventícia, acidental (accidental, bye, casual, chance, contingent, haphazard, incidental, occasional, odd, random, sporadic, undesigned). (various references) accidental (accidental, accidentally, arbitrary, broken, casual, casually, chance, contingent, fortuitous, fortuitously, hurt, incidental, occasional, precarious, random, stray), accesoriu (accessary, accessories, accessory, accidental, adjunct, adjunctive, appendant, appurtenance, appurtenant, attachment, bye, fixture, second, secondary, subordinate, subsidiary), din afarã (external, from outside, from the outside, from without, out), întâmplãtor (accidental, accidentally, casual, chance, circumstantial, contingent, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, incidentally, occasional, occurrent, odd, random, transient). (various references) случайный (accidental, aleatory, arbitrary, casual, chance, coincidental, contingent, episodic, extemporaneous, extemporary, fortuitous, haphazard, happy go lucky, hit or miss, incident, incidental, jobbing, lucky, occasional, odd, passing, promiscuous, punative, random, spurious, stray). (various references) sporedan (accessary, accessory, auxiliary, extrinsic, incidental, indifferent, odd, secondary), slučajan (accidental, chance, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, random, unexpected, unintentional), pomoćni (adjunct, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary, relief, subsidiary, suffragan). (various references) adventicio. (various references) adventiv, tillfällig (accidental, casual, coincidental, contingent, episodic, extraordinary, fortuitous, incidental, interim, momentary, occasional, odd, provisional, stopgap, temporary). (various references) tesadüfi (accidental, chance, circumstantial, coincidental, fortuitous, incidental, passing, random, unarranged), dıştan gelen (extrinsic), beklenmedik (abrupt, heaven-sent, improbable, snap, sudden, surprise, unannounced, unexpected, unforeseen, unhoped, unhoped-for, unimagined, unlooked for), şans eseri olan (chance). (various references) випадковий (accidental, aleatory, casual, chance, chanceful, circumstantial, coincidental, contingent, episodic, episodical, eventual, extemporary, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, happy go lucky, hit or miss, incident, occasional, occurrent, odd, pickup, promiscuous, random, stray, unpremeditated), придатковий, побічний (accidental, collateral, extraneous, incident, indirect, lateral), додатковий (accessary, accessory, accidental, additional, appendant, appendical, auxiliary, collateral, complementary, expletive, extra, further, more, new, novel, obverse, odd, other, plus, pony, second, secondary, supernumerary, supplemental, supplementary, surplus). (various references) ngẫu nhiên (accidentally, casual, chance, contingent, fortuitous, haply, incidental, incidentally, perchance, promiscuous), không phát sinh ở nơi thông thường. (various references) damweiniol (accidental, causal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "adventitious": adventitiously. (additional references) | |
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"Adventitious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adentitious, advantitious, advenntitious, adventitous, asventitious. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "adventitious" (pronounced 'Ad`ven*ti"tious'): Ablatitious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Addititious, Adjectitious, Adoptious, Adscititious, Ambitious, Arreptitious, Ascititious, Ascriptitious, Bumptious, Captious, Cautious, Cementitious, Cineritious, Collatitious, Combustious, Commentitious, Compunctious, Conceptious, Concupiscentious, Connutritious, Conscientious, Contentious, Deceptious, Defectious, Deglutitious, Deletitious, Detractious, Direptitious, Disputatious, Dissentious, Distractious, Emissitious, Exceptious, Exemptitious, Expeditious, Extortious, Facetious, Factious, Factitious, Fictious, flagitious, fractious, Impropitious, incautious, Inimicitious, Innutritious, Inventious, Irreptitious, Lateritious, licentious, Negotious, Novitious, Nutritious, Obreptitious, Ostentatious, Overcautious, Pactitious, Pestilentious, Placentious, Precautious, Precipitious, Pretentious, Profectitious, Propitious, Recrementitious, Reinfectious, Rejectitious, Repertitious, repetitious, robustious, Sapientious, Satellitious, Scribatious, scrumptious, Secretitious, seditious, sententious, Silentious, Stillatitious, Subdititious, Subreptitious, Subventitious, supposititious, surreptitious, Temptatious, Tortious, Tractitious, tralatitious, Translatitious, Tribunitious, Umbratious, Uncautious, Unctious, Unpitious, Vexatious. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-n-o-s-t-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: deviations, estivation, novitiates. | |
-3 letters: antidotes, auditions, auditives, daintiest, deviation, dittanies, donatives, ideations, iodinates, novitiate, situation, stationed, tantivies, uintaites, untidiest, unvisited, vastitude. | |
-4 letters: adenitis, antidote, astonied, audients, audition, auditive, dainties, deviants, disunite, divinest, donative, editions, ideation, indevout, instated, intuited, iodinate, nativist, nudities, ostinati, otitides, outdates, outstand, sedation, sedition, sinuated, situated, standout, sudation, tetanoid, titanous, tuitions, uintaite, unstated, untasted, untidies, vanitied, vanities, visioned, visitant, vitiated, vitiates. | |
-5 letters: advents, astound, atonies, attends, attuned, attunes, audient, aunties, avidins, datives, dauties, dentist, destain, detains, deviant, devious, distain, distant, distent, ditties, divines, donates, dotiest, dunites, edition, envious, evasion, indites, indusia, inedita, inosite, instate, instead, intuits, invades, invited, invites, iodates, iodines, ionised, isatine, naevoid, naivest, natives, niveous, notated, notates, nutated, nutates, outdate, outeats, outside, outvied, outvies, sainted, satinet, sinuate, situate, snouted, soutane, stained, station, stative, statued, stinted, stouten, student, stunted, tainted, taunted, tautens, tedious, tenutos, testudo, tetanus, tidiest, tineids, tiniest, titians, toadies, toasted, toniest, tuition, unities, unitive, unsated, unsaved, unstate, uveitis, vainest, vaunted, vauntie, viniest, visited, vistaed, vitiate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-i-n-o-s-t-t-u-v" | |
+2 letters: adventitiously. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 64 76 65 6E 74 69 74 69 6F 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.. ...- . -. - .. - .. --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100100 01110110 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A d v e n t i t i o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0064 0076 0065 006E 0074 0069 0074 0069 006F 0075 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357088718086758675818785 |
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