adventitious

• The attribution of a catastrophe like Beatrice's to either of the two Jewesses, would of course be adventitious, and should be considered in the light of an artistic privilege. —  The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
• What are produced as the exclusive badges and occult proofs of Catholic bigotry, are nothing but the adventitious ornaments and external symbols, the gross and sensible language, in a word, the poetry of Christianity in general. —  The Spirit of the Age
• [146 For other cases of prolification or the adventitious formation of buds on leaves, roots, &c.;, see under Heterotaxy FOOTNOTES 104] Linn., 'Prolepsis,' § vii; Goethe, 'Metamorph 96, 103, 106 105] "Diaphysis inflorescentiarum." —  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• The adventitious organs appeared as if they were developments from the thalamus--a kind of foliaceous disc, in fact Illustration: FIG. —  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• They are arranged with reference to the number of adventitious organs, beginning with those in which the number was smallest, and proceeding thence to those in which it was greatest. —  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants

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