Ad-vent'ive1, a.
a. Accidental; adventitious;—little used in a general sense, but applied in botany to foreign plants accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country, yet hardly to be called native. Gray.
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a. Accidental; adventitious;—little used in a general sense, but applied in botany to foreign plants accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country, yet hardly to be called native. Gray.
n. A thing or person coming from without. [Rare.] Bacon.