offshoot

see definition of offshoot

noundevelopment, product

Synonyms for offshoot

noun development, product

Antonyms for offshoot

affiliates

noun. organization that is associated with another

after-effect

noun. repercussion

arm

noun. subdivision, annex

Word Origin & History

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.).

Example Sentences for offshoot

The morality was not so much an offshoot as a complement of the miracle.

America, we might say, does not exist; there exists instead an offshoot of Europe.

A round-topped hill, generally an offshoot from a higher mountain.

He is an offshoot of the Spanish family that ruled the Isthmus 153 after Balboa was shot.

Besides, it is clear that Mohammedanism is an offshoot of Zoroastrianism and Christianity.

She was sure that it was just the other way—that Hampton was an offshoot of Tuskegee.

I, 50; probably an offshoot of the errors of Mendicants at Paris, 1243; see Mat.

In the distance was the Paghman offshoot of the Hindu Kush range.

Yet for all that it may be an offshoot from the primitive line of fish descent.

Was it possible that this vagrant was an offshoot of the noble family which he had been seeking?

offshoot

Synonyms for offshoot

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affiliates

after-effect

arm

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