adventive

Adjective

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Adjective (1)

  1. not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized“an adventive weed”Opposite nativeSimilar foreign, strange
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Ad·ven′tive (…), adjective

1. Accidental.

2. Botany Adventitious. Asa Gray

Ad·ven′tive noun

A thing or person coming from without; an immigrant. rare Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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