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/ˌædvɪntˈɪʃəs/
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ADJECTIVE
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associated by chance and not an integral part
they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character
poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form
How To Use adventitious In A Sentence
- Adventitious buds have been induced from protoplast culture, on leaf explants and on strips of stem.
- Sections were made at distances of 200 mm, 100 mm and 40 mm from tips of an adventitious root and stained with Sudan Red 7B. Lipophilic substances such as suberin lamellae, were stained bright red.
- The skilled reader is not dependent on the adventitious aids of easiness or brightness; he is no longer, for instance, dependent upon plot for his enjoyment of fiction, or upon what is called 'actuality' or 'incident', or mere verisimilitude of description. 2010 January 08 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
- The strike was broken , of course, but mainly by a series of adventitious developments.
- One possible source for this high frequency dispersion could be trace amounts of adventitious oxygen or contributions from iron.
- Things he did, no matter how adventitious or spontaneous, struck the popular imagination as remarkable. Chapter XI
- The species propagates well asexually because lignified branches of any age possess a strong ability to form adventitious roots. Chapter 10
- The influence a writer can exert is purely adventitious.
- Even the sexual aspects of the story seem more integral to the whole and are not adventitiously added for a prurient effect.
- Third, probably very few of the participants (other than perhaps adventitious semi-professional looters) expected to gain anything in terms of significant personal profit or meaningful social betterment as a consequence of the upheavals in Los Angeles. Matthew Yglesias » Endgame