adventitious

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Adventitious organs are those that grow in unusual places, such as roots growing from the side of a stem.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Adventitious buds form the clusters of curious thorns on the Honey-locust and the tufts of whip-like branches on the trunks and large limbs of the Elms.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

Adventitious buds are such as are newly formed from callus or other tissues in places not normally provided with buds, as is often seen on occluding wounds—e.g. stool shoots.

From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall

Adventitious roots from petiole of celery 158  72.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

Adventitious features.—Ornament is applied to the surfaces of fabrics by painting and by stamping.

From A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-'85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, (pages 189-252) by Holmes, William Henry