Alien vs Adventitious - What's the difference?
alien | adventitious | Related terms |
A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
A foreigner residing in a country.
* 1773 , William Blackstone, Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books, Volume 1 (Fifth Edition) , page 372
* 1831 , John Marshall, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia , U.S. Government
* 2004 , Wesley Campbell, Stephen Court, Be a hero: the battle for mercy and social justice , Destiny Image Publishers, page 74
Any life form of extraterrestrial origin.
One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
* Bible, Ephes. ii. 12
Pertaining to an alien.
Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
* Wordsworth
From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 30:
(genetics, medicine) Not congenital; acquired.
(biology) Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.
* 1985 , , H. T. Clifford, & P. F. Yeo, The Families of the Monocotyledons , page 101
Alien is a related term of adventitious.
As a verb alien
is .As an adjective adventitious is
from an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.alien
English
Alternative forms
* alyaunteNoun
(en noun)- An alien born may purchase lands, or other estates: but not for his own use; for the king is thereupon entitled to them.
- The counsel have shown conclusively that they are not a state of the union, and have insisted that individually they are aliens , not owing allegiance to the United States.
- Aliens are aliens because of persecution or war or hardship or famine.
- Aliens from the common wealth of Israel.
Synonyms
* * See alsoAdjective
(en adjective)- alien subjects, enemies, property, or shores
- principles alien to our religion
- An alien sound of melancholy.
Alternative forms
* alieneAnagrams
* English adjectives ending in -en ----adventitious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The adventitious disappearance of those nearer the the throne than the duke had, moreover, set tongues awagging.
- The Velloziaceae have evolved a woody stem which is covered with a layer of adventitious roots mingled with the fibres of the old leaf sheaths;