EGAVE

adventive

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Accidental.
  2. adjective Adventitious.
  3. adjective Of a plant: not native, but introduced by humans to a place and since naturalized.
  4. noun A non-native plant that has become naturalized.

Similar words

foreign advertent venturous adventuresome fortuituous adventurous chanceable attemptive accident-prone incident

Often followed by

species embryos in plants embryony embryogenesis shoots roots cones

Word family

adventives

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