different between adventive vs adventitious

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin advent?vus, from adveni? (“to come (to)”) +? -?vus (verbal-adjective suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?v?nt?v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?v?nt?v/
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?d?v?nt?v/

Adjective

adventive (comparative more adventive, superlative most adventive)

1. Accidental.
2. Adventitious.
3. (biology) Of a plant that is not native, but was introduced by humans to a place and has since become naturalized.

Noun

adventive (plural adventives)

1. A non-native plant that has become naturalized.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad.v??.tiv/
• Homophone: adventives

Adjective

adventive

1. feminine singular of adventif

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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