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adventive

adventive

9.9
A plant or animal that is not native and is only found there for a short time
  • adjective
  • /ædˈvɛntɪv/
  • Specialized
translation icon : adventicio
  • Common dandelions are often considered adventive plants because they thrive in many areas where they are not originally from.

Examples

  • This is the same argument often used to explain the takeover of loosely packed island ecosystems by adventive continental biota.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Lanteri and Normark (1995) noted the same adventive success in North America for parthenogenetic weevils from South America.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Seeds brought into the state by railroad cars or other conveyances added other weeds to the adventive inventory.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Likewise, most of the members of the largest group of adventive lepidopterans, the family Tortricidae (Table 5), are early spring feeders.

    Academic text (1996)

  • It is no coincidence that approximately 40% of all insects adventive on American woody plants have parthenogenetic capabilities, four times its estimated representation (11%) among native phytophagous taxa in North America.

    Academic text (1996)

  • There is evidence that limited sexual reproduction in adventive clonal aquatic weeds limits their adaptive ability in nonindigenous ranges (Barrett et al. 1993).

    Academic text (1996)

  • The adventive species of birds in the region have adapted well to the local environment despite not being native.

  • Gardeners sometimes struggle with adventive weeds that have taken root and spread quickly in their flowerbeds.

Synonyms

nonnative
vsadventive
1 4.9

From another place, often brought there by people

is narrower, meaning not fully established and only locally or temporarily naturalized

Antonyms

indigenous
104 5.6

Living or growing naturally in a place and not moved there from somewhere else

native
13 3.9

A living thing like a plant or animal that naturally lives in a place

How Established

native
13 3.9
naturalized
  • Specialized
1 5.9
adventive
  • Specialized
9.9
alien
685 4.1

Surface Forms

adventive positive

Morphology

adventive = advent (semi-transparent) = advent + ive

Formed by suffixation of '-ive' to 'advent'; the relation to 'arrival' is clear but the ecological sense ('not native but locally naturalized') is specialized and not fully predictable for average learners.

Etymology

Adventive comes from the same root as advent and the parts ad- 'to' and venire 'to come'. So an adventive plant or animal is one that has 'come' into a place recently, is not fully native, or only lives there for a short time.