offshoot
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English
Etymology
Noun
offshoot (plural offshoots)
- Something which shoots off or separates from a main stem or branch of a plant.
- the offshoots of a tree
- Something which develops from something else.
- an offshoot of a criminal organization
- 1945 September and October, “Notes and News: The "Berks & Hants" Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 299:
- The reason is that the Berks & Hants Railway Company, under the powers of which the line was built, also included the Reading-Basingstoke section. The company was an offshoot of the G.W.R., which absorbed it before any section was opened.
Synonyms
Translations
that which shoots off from a main stem
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that which develops from something else
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Further reading
- “offshoot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “offshoot”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.