Adventive
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.
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England (Bunting, 1955): adventive, on bananas from Dominica.
The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches Louis M. Roth
Hormetica laevigata, Wales (Sandemann, 1934): adventive, in pile of banana sacks.
The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches Louis M. Roth
Euphyllodromia angustata, Sweden (Princis, 1947): adventive.
The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches Louis M. Roth
Neoblattella fratercula, Nebraska (Hebard, 1916b): adventive.
The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches Louis M. Roth
Nauphoeta flexivitta, Denmark (Vestergaard, 1958): adventive.
The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches Louis M. Roth
Capucinella delicatula, California (Caudell, 1931): adventive.
The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches Louis M. Roth
In addition to these, other adventive cockroaches appear from time to time in ports to which they have been carried by ships.
The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches Louis M. Roth
adventive, applied to foreign plants accidentally or sparingly introduced into a country, but hardly to be called naturalized.
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Hormetica ventralis, Sweden (Princis, 1947): adventive, in local warehouse of banana company.
The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches Louis M. Roth
adjective
(of a species) introduced to a new area and not yet established there; exotic
noun
such a plant or animal
adventive
(ād-věn’tĭv)
Not native to and not fully established in a new habitat or environment. An adventive plant may be locally or temporarily naturalized without finding conditions that allow it to spread more widely.
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