ADVENTITIOUS

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 1

(I.at. advent it i us, extraordinary.) In Botany, when any thing appears out of the ordinary nature: If a bud appears where buds do not usually appear, it is adventitious. This term must not be confounded with abnormal, which is used when any thing is cOMutmcled out of the ordinary a [s. 29]