different between adventitious vs anthropochory

English

Etymology

From Latin adventicius (“foreign”), from adveni? (“arrive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æd.v?n?t??.?s/, /?æd.v?n?t??.?s/
• (Northern California)

Adjective

adventitious (comparative more adventitious, superlative most adventitious)

1. From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
2. Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 30:

     The adventitious disappearance of those nearer the throne than the duke had, moreover, set tongues awagging.

3. (genetics, medicine) Not congenital; acquired.
4. (biology) Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.
   • 1985, R. M. T. Dahlgren, H. T. Clifford, & P. F. Yeo, The Families of the Monocotyledons, page 101

     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;

Synonyms

• (from an external source): extrinsic
• (accidental, additional): accidental, spontaneous, sporadic; see also Thesaurus:accidental
• (not congenital): acquired

Derived terms

• adventitiously
• adventitiousness

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Translations

English

Etymology

From anthropo- +? -chory.

Noun

anthropochory (uncountable)

1. (ecology) The (typically inadvertent) dispersal of seeds, spores, or other reproductive botanical material, or of reproductively capable animals, by humans as a routine means of reproductive dispersal of that species.
2. (ecology) The (typically inadvertent and sporadic) dispersal by humans, of seeds, spores, or other reproductive botanical material, or of reproductively capable animals, into a region where they do not natively occur, resulting in adventitious anthropochorous establishment of an alien population if successful.
   • 2006, Juhani Terhivuo, Anssi Saura, "Dispersal and clonal diversity of North-European parthenogenetic earthworms", in Paul F. Hendrix, Biological Invasions Belowground: Earthworms as Invasive Species (2008), Springer, isbn: 978-1-4020-5429-7, page 15

     Stephenson stressed the importance of anthropochory in earthworm dispersal. Human introductions, either intentional or unconscious, play a key role in earthworm invasions, as is well demonstrated by the presence of European Lumbricidae in North America, Asia, New Zealand

Derived terms

• anthropochore
• anthropochoric
• anthropochorous
• ectoanthropochory
• endoanthropochory

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