adventitious

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
  2. Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
    — In a triad of verbs that admits nothing adventitious, Judah sees, takes, and lies with a woman; […]
  3. Not congenital; acquired.
  4. Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.
    — The Velloziaceae have evolved a woody stem which is covered with a layer of adventitious roots mingled with the fibres of the old leaf sheaths;

词形变化

more adventitious comparative most adventitious superlative adventicious alternative,archaic

词汇关系

衍生词
adventitiously adventitiousness nonadventitious unadventitious
相关词
adventitial adventition adventive adventively

词源

From Medieval Latin adventītius (“coming from abroad, extraneous”), a corruption of Latin adventīcius (“foreign, strange, accidental”), from adventus (“arrival, coming, approach, advent”) + -īcius (suffix forming adjectives), from adveniō (“to arrive”) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns).
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