Adventitious

Cuttings are plant pieces, usually stems or branches, capable of growing new roots, called adventitious roots. ❋ Unknown (1991)

Leaf-buds occasionally arise from the roots, when they are called adventitious; this occurs in many fruit trees, poplars, elms and others. ❋ Various (N/A)

But as it was occasionally inexpedient to carry about measuring-chains a boy would do well to know the precise length of his own foot-pace, so that when he was deprived of what Hurree Chunder called adventitious aids 'he might still tread his distances. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

But as it was occasionally inexpedient to carry about measuring-chains a boy would do well to know the precise length of his own foot-pace, so that when he was deprived of what Hurree Chunder called adventitious aids’ he might still tread his distances. ❋ Unknown (2003)

In one of David Attenborough's 'The Private Life Of Plants' episodes, he talks on similar fallen trunks that eventually give rise to a row of other daughter 'trees' growing out of the main trunk; these eventually grow adventitious roots and become independent. ❋ AYDIN (2009)

If Barnes once called the contest "posh bingo", this year looks a lot less adventitious. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Third, probably very few of the participants (other than perhaps adventitious semi-professional looters) expected to gain anything in terms of significant personal profit or meaningful social betterment as a consequence of the upheavals in Los Angeles. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Things he did, no matter how adventitious or spontaneous, struck the popular imagination as remarkable. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The skilled reader is not dependent on the adventitious aids of easiness or brightness; he is no longer, for instance, dependent upon plot for his enjoyment of fiction, or upon what is called 'actuality' or 'incident', or mere verisimilitude of description. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As Meeker sees comedy as having a biological rather than idealistic focus, so Baillie sees it as properly centering on the “original distinctions of nature” rather than on the “adventitious distinctions ... of age, fortune, rank, profession, and country” (13). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Such an approach might be private, adventitious, female. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Brafort, that thy Ruin might be the more compleat; for him that was treated by thy hospitable Parents, more like their own Child than an adventitious Guest, by which Means the Traitor had Opportunity to steal away the Heart of their only Daughter! ❋ Unknown (2008)

The resulting uneven forest canopy allows additional light to penetrate and encourages growth in adventitious or second growth species that may not be part of the climax forest type. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Each being but a small bit of data, often merely an adventitious entry in a continuum of log-books of observations, the entirety is hoped to provide enough substance to justify its addition to the records of malacology. ❋ AYDIN (2008)

'Know, first,' cried the Doctor, 'if to your guidance she will give way; know if the affair with Sir Sedley has exculpations which render it single and adventitious, or if there hang upon it a lightness of character that may invest caprice, chance, or fickleness, with powers of involving such another entanglement.' ❋ Unknown (2008)

And, independent of that inexperience, there is commonly so little stability, so little internal hold, in the female character, that any sudden glare of adventitious lure, will draw them, for the moment, from any and every regular plan of substantial benefit. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Constantinople, therefore, when in 324 it first arose in imperial majesty out of the humble Byzantium, showed, even in its birth, and amid its adventitious splendour, as we have already said, some intimations of that speedy decay to which the whole civilised world, then limited within the Roman empire, was internally and imperceptibly tending. ❋ Unknown (2008)