Adventitious root
adventitious root
adventitious root
(ād’věn-tĭsh’əs)
A root growing from a location other than the underground, descending portion of the axis of a plant, as from a stem or leaf.
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not native and usually not yet well established, as exotic plants or animals. an adventive plant or animal. Historical Examples Denmark (Henriksen, 1939): adventive ; origin mostly Jamaica. The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches Louis M. Roth England (Bunting, 1955): adventive, on bananas from Dominica. The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches Louis M. Roth Hormetica laevigata, Wales […]
- Adventure
an exciting or very unusual experience. participation in exciting undertakings or enterprises: the spirit of adventure. a bold, usually risky undertaking; hazardous action of uncertain outcome. a commercial or financial speculation of any kind; venture. Obsolete. peril; danger; risk. chance; fortune; luck. to risk or hazard. to take the chance of; dare. to venture to […]
- Adventure athlete
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- Adventure definition language
adventure definition language language, games (ADL) An adventure game language interpreter designed by Ross Cunniff and Tim Brengle in 1987. ADL is semi-object-oriented with Lisp-like syntax and is a superset of DDL. It is available for Unix, MS-DOS, Amiga and Acorn Archimedes. (ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.games/volume2), (ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/systems/amiga/fish/fish/f0/ff091). (1995-03-20)
- Adventure game
noun a type of role-playing computer game involving fantasy, risks, and danger Examples The adventure game player often has to solve a series of puzzles while being given a deep story. Usage Note computing