See Also: adventive(medicine)
adventive(dictionary)

adventive (iou)



adventive adjective. E17.
[from Latin advent- (see ADVENT) + -IVE, after ADVENTITIOUS.]
= ADVENTITIOUS 1. rare. E17.
L. Durrell So..tenderly had he captured the adventive minute.
Botany & Zoology. Present spontaneously in a region but not native to it. L19.