adventitious
- Adjective. From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
- Adjective. Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
- Adjective. (genetics, medicine) Not congenital; acquired.
- Adjective. (biology) Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.
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