adventitious

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IAA is used as a rooting hormone to promote growth of adventitious roots on cuttings and detached leaves.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

This show was a feat from day one; Covid-19 made it an adventitious masterpiece, a taxidermied stage for all we have lost.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2020

A bud and adventitious root system form from the runner.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

But the most adventitious source of revenue was the North Sea – a source to which one Thatcherite would refer as "what we are using to finance unemployment".

From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2013

Like strawberries, peach palm throws out adventitious shoots.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann