1. adventitious - Adjective
2. adventitious - Adjective Satellite
Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.
Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.
Acquired, as diseases; accidental.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free. Thomas Clarkson
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. Ralph Waldo Emerson
...the snarling, whining, pampered, analphabetic humanoids of Hollywood emerge as garbage irrelevantly gilded with adventitious photogeneity. Anthony Burgess
poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form Source: Internet
they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character Source: Internet
Nymphaeaceae (water lilies) have reticulate veins, a single cotyledon, adventitious roots and a monocot like vascular bundle. Source: Internet