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

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