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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
offshoot
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the National Organization for Women and its offshoots
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dignity came in 1747 with Samuel Davies, a graduate of an offshoot of the Log College.
▪ Hopkins, millionaire owner of Canadair, an offshoot of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft, was not afraid to tackle famous managers.
▪ In April the first offshoot factory opened in Machynlleth.
▪ It started as an offshoot from Woldmarsh Producers, a large farmer buying group in the Lincolnshire Wolds.
▪ Now the Rhine widens into the Untersee, an offshoot of the Bodensee.
▪ Pachomius's monastery quickly generated a number of offshoots.
▪ The information came from a political group that was an offshoot of the anti-nuclear movement.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Offshoot

Offshoot \Off"shoot`\, n. [Off + shoot.] That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
offshoot

1670s, in figurative sense, of family trees; 1801 in general sense of "a derivative;" 1814 in literal sense, in reference to plants. From off + shoot (n.).

Wiktionary
offshoot

n. That which shoot off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.

WordNet
offshoot

n. a natural consequence of development [syn: outgrowth, branch, offset]

Wikipedia
Offshoot

Offshoot may refer to:

  • Offshoot, a newer name for the Transformers character "Firebolt", who is Targetmaster partner to Hot Rod/Rodimus
  • Offshoot Films, a digital media company
  • Offshoot (plant), a concept in botany
Offshoot (plant)

Offshoots are lateral shoots that are produced on the main stem of a plant. They may be known colloquially as "suckers". Also see basal shoot.

Usage examples of "offshoot".

She decided the limb she was on now was a slimmer, secondary offshoot that forked down from that heavier bough.

Chapter One the premise was stated that mankind could be an offshoot of some earlier superculture.

Liate, but that would mean that Offshoot, Stem, and his other villages would be left to her strict interpretation of family regulation and privilege, and he could not bring himself to do that either.

It was probably as well hidden in the dunes as Offshoot was in the trees.

Chena wondered if these people had to work for their village like they did in Offshoot, or if they all got out of it somehow.

That should be more than enough for a meal, and an emergency comm burst to the receiver at the Offshoot library, if she needed one.

Even for an Offshoot house, it was perpetually dim, which was one of the reasons Mom had gotten it so cheap.

Once, he had lived in Offshoot, and Nan Elle had saved the life of his oldest son.

If she did this, if she found the mushroom Nan Elle needed and got it back to Offshoot, she would strike her first real blow against the hothousers since they murdered Mom.

The move to full quarantine status for Offshoot was being debated by the sector administration committee right now.

Chena Trust, as predicted by Basante, but she has been reported safely returned to Offshoot and Basante file secured pending future requirements.

In another ten, they would leave, and she would have to crawl all the way back across the swamp and return to Offshoot empty-handed.

To her left gleamed the river to Offshoot and the distant misty red cliffs.

In fact, he kept trying to chat her up when he came to Offshoot, even though he had a daughter older than she was.

In some, she escaped back to the station with it, in some she just destroyed it in a fit of ignorance, in others she delivered Eden to the old poisoner in Offshoot, who held it to bargain with.