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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 235 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ADVENTITIOUS (from See also:Lat. adventicius, coming from abroad) , a quality from outside, in no sense pant of the substance or circumstance: a See also:man's clothes, or See also:condition of See also:life, his See also:wealth or his poverty, are called by See also:Carlyle " adventitious wrappages," as being extrinsic, superadded and not a natural See also:part of him. In See also:botany the word means that which is not normal to the plant, which appears irregularly and accidentally, e.g. buds or roots out of See also:place, or See also:strange spots and streaks not native to the See also:flower.

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