Sentence examples for adventitious- from inspiring English sources

This is called adventitious growth.

Adventitious roots, when modified for aerial support, are called prop roots, as in corn or some (Ficus; Moraceae).

Many bulbous plants have contractile adventitious roots that pull the bulb deeper into the ground as it grows.

Climbing plants often grip their supports with specialized adventitious roots.

In many tropical rain forest trees, large woody prop roots develop from adventitious roots on horizontal branches and provide additional anchorage and support.

Adventitious roots, initiated near the shoot tip, may grow within the stem cortex for some distance before emerging.

Rather unique adventitious buds may develop on roots and grow out as shoots.

Some trees produce adventitious water roots near the waterline after flooding conditions develop.

The taproot does not persist long in arborescent cycads but is replaced by large adventitious roots, which obscure the basic taproot system of the seedling.

Consequently, the members of Lenin's adventitious majority were called Bolsheviks (majoritarians), and Martov's group were dubbed Mensheviks (minoritarians).

A bunion is an adventitious bursa that develops on the inner side of the base of the big toe in association with hallux valgus (deviation of the first toe such that it lies on top of or below the other toes).