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Adventitious meaning

  1. From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
  2. Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
  3. Not congenital; acquired.

Synonyms of Adventitious

accidental extrinsic

Related words

Other words often associated with Adventitious or its synonyms:

intrinsic unintended outside chance alien extraneous unessential inadvertent external casual inessential unplanned

Using Adventitious

  • The main meaning on this page is: From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign. | Accidental, additional, appearing casually. | Not congenital; acquired.
  • Useful related words include: accidental, extrinsic.
  • In the example corpus, adventitious often appears in combinations such as: adventitious roots, adventitious reinforcement, or adventitious.

Context around Adventitious

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 23.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 4 start, 4 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

homeschooling 1× conifers 1× cotyledon 1× produce 1×

Often after:

roots 3× reinforcement 3× shoots 1× materials 1×

Sentence patterns with Adventitious

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

accessory or adventitious materials however 1× fibrous or adventitious and is 1× homeschooling adventitious or detrimental 1× plants produce adventitious shoots and 1× rather than adventitious reinforcement guided 1× root and adventitious roots form 1× single cotyledon adventitious roots and 1× skinner s adventitious reinforcement explanation 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

homeschooling adventitious or 1× in some conifers 1× nymphaeaceae water lilies 1× some plants produce 1× subsequent research e 1× terminal responses seem 1×

Common sentence endings:

explanation for it 1× from the sides 1× in higher education 1× like vascular bundle 1× obscure staddon 1977 1× of grass species 1×

Words around Adventitious

Just before it in the word index:

adventists 31 adventist 106 adventism 5 adventhealth 19 advent 777 advection 10

Just after it in the word index:

adventure 2.680 adventured 2 adventureland 4 adventurer 142 adventurers 110 adventures 1.505

Similar in corpus frequency:

aadi 14 aayush 14 abbottabad 14 aberdonian 14 abhi 14 aborting 14

Corpus analysis for Adventitious

  • In this selection, "adventitious" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, homeschooling, conifers, cotyledon, roots, reinforcement and shoots stand out and add context to how "adventitious" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include accessory or adventitious materials however and fibrous or adventitious and is. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "adventitious" sits close to words such as aadi, aayush and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with adventitious

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Homeschooling: adventitious or detrimental for proficiency in higher education. (9 words)

Some plants produce adventitious shoots and suckers that form along their lateral roots. (13 words)

In some conifers adventitious roots can form the largest part of the root system. (14 words)

Longer example sentences

These accessory or adventitious materials, however, as distinguished from the true ashes, tend to occur in angular fragments; and when they form a large part of the mass the rock is more properly a "volcanic breccia " than a tuff. (39 words)

The causation of interim activities (such as the schedule-induced polydipsia seen in a similar situation with rats) also cannot be traced to adventitious reinforcement and its details are still obscure (Staddon, 1977). (33 words)

The plumule is covered with a coleoptile that forms the first leaf while the radicle is covered with a coleorhiza that connects to the primary root and adventitious roots form from the sides. (33 words)

Example sentences (10)

Homeschooling: adventitious or detrimental for proficiency in higher education.

In some conifers adventitious roots can form the largest part of the root system.

Nymphaeaceae (water lilies) have reticulate veins, a single cotyledon, adventitious roots and a monocot like vascular bundle.

Some plants produce adventitious shoots and suckers that form along their lateral roots.

Subsequent research (e.g. Staddon and Simmelhag, 1971), while finding similar behavior, failed to find support for Skinner's "adventitious reinforcement" explanation for it.

Terminal responses seem to reflect classical (as opposed to operant) conditioning, rather than adventitious reinforcement, guided by a process like that observed in 1968 by Brown and Jenkins in their "autoshaping" procedures.

The causation of interim activities (such as the schedule-induced polydipsia seen in a similar situation with rats) also cannot be traced to adventitious reinforcement and its details are still obscure (Staddon, 1977).

The plumule is covered with a coleoptile that forms the first leaf while the radicle is covered with a coleorhiza that connects to the primary root and adventitious roots form from the sides.

These accessory or adventitious materials, however, as distinguished from the true ashes, tend to occur in angular fragments; and when they form a large part of the mass the rock is more properly a "volcanic breccia " than a tuff.

This type of root system is known as fibrous or adventitious, and is a characteristic of grass species.

Common combinations with adventitious

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "adventitious" in a sentence?
An example: "Homeschooling: adventitious or detrimental for proficiency in higher education." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "adventitious" from authentic English texts.
What does "adventitious" mean?
Adventitious means: From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
What are synonyms of "adventitious"?
Common synonyms of "adventitious" include: accidental, extrinsic.
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