Usually means: Arising randomly or from external cause.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word adventitious:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. adventitious: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. adventitious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adventitious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adventitious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adventitious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Adventitious, adventitious: Wordnik
  7. adventitious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. adventitious: Wiktionary
  9. adventitious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. adventitious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. adventitious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. adventitious: Dictionary.com
  13. adventitious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Adventitious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Adventitious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. adventitious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. adventitious: Rhymezone
  18. Adventitious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. adventitious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. adventitious: Free Dictionary
  21. adventitious: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. adventitious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. adventitious: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. adventitious: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. adventitious: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adventitious: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Adventitious: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. adventitious: Medical dictionary
  5. Adventitious: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

(Note: See adventitiously as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
adjective:  Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
adjective:  (genetics, medicine) Not congenital; acquired.
adjective:  (biology) Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.

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