Adventive

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  • adjective. Not native to and not fully established in a new habitat or environment; locally or temporarily naturalized.
  • noun. An adventive organism.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • . Accidental; adventitious.
  • Specifically In botany and zoology, only transient and locally spontaneous, not thoroughly naturalized: applied to introduced plants and animals.
  • noun. One who or that which comes from without; an immigrant.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Accidental.
  • adjective. Adventitious.
  • noun. A thing or person coming from without; an immigrant.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. adventitious
  • adjective. Of a plant that is not native, but was introduced by humans to a place and has since become naturalized.
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  • adjective. not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized
  • Word Usage
    "Unto the first of these, the considerations of the original of the soul, whether it be native or adventive, and how far it is exempted from laws of matter, and of the immortality thereof, and many other points, do appertain: which have been not more laboriously inquired than variously reported; so as the travail therein taken seemeth to have been rather in a maze than in"
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    foreign  strange  
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