adventitious

adventitious
1. a случайный; непредусмотренный, незапланированный

adventitious aid — помощь, оказываемая время от времени; неплановая помощь

2. a мед. приобретённый
3. a биол. адвентициальный, придаточный

adventitious bud — придаточная почка

4. a биол. побочный, случайный

adventitious light — побочный свет

adventitious criminal — случайный преступник

Синонимический ряд:
1. adscititious (adj.) adscititious; advenient; advential; supervenient
2. fortuitous (adj.) accidental; casual; chance; contingent; fortuitous; involuntary; random; unintentional; unplanned

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Смотреть что такое "adventitious" в других словарях:

  • Adventitious — Ad ven*ti tious, a. [L. adventitius.] 1. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign. [1913 Webster] To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • adventitious — [ad΄ven tish′əs, ad΄vəntish′əs] adj. [L adventicius, coming from abroad: see ADVENT] 1. added from outside; not inherent; accidental 2. occurring in unusual or abnormal places [adventitious roots growing on a stem] SYN. ACCIDENTAL adventitiously… …   English World dictionary

  • adventitious — adventitious. См. придаточный. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …   Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • adventitious — I adjective accidental, acquired, casual, circumstantial, external, extraneous, extrinsic, extroverted, foreign, fortuitous, incidental, outward, outward looking, random, subordinate, subsidiary, transcendent, unintentional, unwitting II index… …   Law dictionary

  • adventitious — (adj.) of the nature of an addition from without, c.1600, from M.L. adventitius coming from abroad, extraneous, a corruption of L. adventicius foreign, strange, accidental, from advent pp. stem of advenire arrive (see ADVENT (Cf. advent)).… …   Etymology dictionary

  • adventitious — *accidental, incidental, fortuitous, casual, contingent Analogous words: acquired (see GET): accessory, subservient (see AUXILIARY) Antonyms: inherent Contrasted words: constitutional, essential, intrinsic, ingrained (see INHERENT): *innate,… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • adventitious — ► ADJECTIVE 1) happening according to chance. 2) Botany (of roots) growing directly from the stem or other upper part of a plant. DERIVATIVES adventitiously adverb. ORIGIN Latin adventicius coming to us from abroad …   English terms dictionary

  • Adventitious — Coming from an external source or occurring in an unusual place or manner. Not inherent, inherited or innate but rather occurring accidentally or spontaneously. When a doctor or nurse auscults (listens to) the chest or abdomen, adventitious… …   Medical dictionary

  • adventitious — adjective Etymology: Latin adventicius Date: 1603 1. coming from another source and not inherent or innate < a Federal house without adventitious later additions > 2. arising or occurring sporadically or in other than the usual location …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • adventitious — accidental, occurring at an unusual locality, as in an adventitious visitor …   Dictionary of ichthyology

  • adventitious — adjective /ˌæd.vɛnˈtɪʃ.əs,ˌæd.vənˈtɪʃ.əs/ a) From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign. 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; …   Wiktionary


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