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ADVENTIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does adventive mean?
• ADVENTIVE (adjective)
The adjective ADVENTIVE has 1 sense:
1. not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized
Familiarity information: ADVENTIVE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized
Context example:
an adventive weed
Similar:
foreign; strange (relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world)
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