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adventitious

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

Related terms

Translations

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taxonomy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
  • (US) IPA(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
  • Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

  1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
  3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

  • taxonomics
  • (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

  • nomenclature
  • ontology

Derived terms

Translations

taxonomy From the web:

  • what taxonomy means
  • what taxonomy are humans
  • what taxonomy do humans belong to
  • what taxonomy is not a type of taxonomy
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