adventitious

adventitious has 5 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 12.

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.
• a.. 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"