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ad⋅ven⋅tive

[ad-ven-tiv] Botany, Zoology
–adjective
1. not native and usually not yet well established, as exotic plants or animals.
–noun
2. an adventive plant or animal.

Origin:
1595–1605, for an earlier sense; < L advent(us) advance, incursion (see advent ) + -ive


ad⋅ven⋅tive⋅ly, adverb
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ad·ven·tive   (ād-věn'tĭv)   
adj.  Not native to and not fully established in a new habitat or environment; locally or temporarily naturalized: an adventive weed.
n.  An adventive organism.

[From Latin adventus, arrival; see advent.]
ad·ven'tive·ly adv.
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