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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 \ad`ven*ti"tious\ ([a^]d`v[e^]n*t[i^]sh"[u^]s), a. [L. adventitius.] 1. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent. Syn: accidental; casual; incidental; additional; supervenient; foreign. [1913 Webster PJC] 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; not hereditary. --AS [1913 Webster] 5. (Med.) Occurring in an unusual place or arising from an external source. --Stedman 25 [PC] -- {Ad`ven*ti"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Ad`ven*ti"tious*ness}, n. [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 ADVENTITIOUS, adventitius. From advenio; what comes incidentally; us
adventitia bona, goods that, fall to a man otherwise than by inheritance; or adventitia dos, a dowry or portion given by some other friend beside the parent.
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