Crossword clues for outgrowth
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outgrowth \Out"growth`\, n. That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 Anything that grows out of something else. 2 # A branch or offshoot of a plant. 3 # An appendage of an animal. 4 # A byproduct or consequence of an action or event.
WordNet
n. a natural consequence of development [syn: branch, offshoot, offset]
the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece" [syn: emergence, growth]
a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process" [syn: process, appendage]
Usage examples of "outgrowth".
Designed by Da Vinci in 1495 as an outgrowth of his earliest anatomy and kinesiology studies, the internal mechanism of the robot knight possessed accurate joints and tendons, and was designed to sit up, wave its arms, and move its head via a flexible neck while opening and closing an anatomically correct jaw.
The answer is that article VI, paragraph 2 was, at its inception, an outgrowth of a major weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
I believe our next great evolutionary advancement will be some kind of whacky gestalten outgrowth of the body and the beaner.
One of the feet of the supernumerary limb had six toes, while the other, which was merely an outgrowth, had two toes on it.
The Good is essential and not the outgrowth of some prior substance so the Unity of The One is its essential.
They are a branching into part, into multiplicity, each single outgrowth bearing its trace of the common source.
But, even in the right, there is the difference that the one set, worshipping the beauty of earth, look no further, while the others, those of recollection, venerate also the beauty of the other world while they, still, have no contempt for this in which they recognize, as it were, a last outgrowth, an attenuation of the higher.
It is an outgrowth of the school my great-great grandmother started with the newfangled ideas she brought with her from America.
But as shall become clear, when seen in its proper context, string theory emerges as a dramatic yet natural outgrowth of the revolutionary discoveries of physics during the past hundred years.
Chief amongst his virtues may be named his zeal for the honor and glory of God, and devotion to the Mother of God -- the latter the necessary outgrowth of the former.
He told himself that what they were doing was a natural outgrowth of the scientific techniques of the past century, that it was no more terrifying to restore life than it was to preserve it with antibiotics or serums.
Atlantis--certainly to that ancient Egyptian civilization which was coeval with, and an outgrowth from, Atlantis.
The civilization of Rome was therefore an outgrowth directly from the civilization of Atlantis.
Both were the outgrowth of a vast, ancient civilization of the highest order, which transmitted some part of its astronomical knowledge to its colonies through their respective priesthoods.
There was something else-perhaps an outgrowth of their mutual malaise.