offshoot
English
Noun
offshoot (plural offshoots)
- That which shoots off or separates from a main stem or branch of a plant.
- the offshoots of a tree
- That 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.
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
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for offshoot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
- offshoot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- “offshoot”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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