Adventitious

Adventitious - Other Definitions

• (a.) Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
  
  
• (a.) Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.
  
  
• (a.) Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.
  
  
• (a.) Acquired, as diseases; accidental.