Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something that branches out or derives its existence or origin from a particular source. synonym: branch.
- noun A branch, descendant, or member of a family or social group.
- noun Botany A lateral shoot from the main stem of a plant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A branch from a main stem, street, stream, or the like.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc..
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun That which
shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a natural consequence of development
Etymologies
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Examples
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A big ask, but sometimes (if not this time) the Twitter offshoot is even better than the original fabrication.
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A big ask, but sometimes (if not this time) the Twitter offshoot is even better than the original fabrication.
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Is that the offshoot from the South Fork just above the Falls Creek Falls?
Field & Stream 2010
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The likely offshoot is that Internet standards will become more inclusive of Internet users outside America.
Web Translations » Blog Archive » Internet changes likely to impact international Web businesses 2009
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A little later: The spoken language is an offshoot from the written language.
Tom Torriglia is going to have a best-seller « Motivated Grammar 2010
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Is that the offshoot from the South Fork just above the Falls Creek Falls?
Field & Stream 2010
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The offshoot from the well-known Terminator film franchise debuted in January and was the highest-rated new scripted show among adults 18-49, drawing an average of 10 million viewers.
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But wait: what if Young used the word offshoot and did not know what it meant, and what if Young learns about Islam from the 700 Club?
Sunday, April 30, 2006 As'ad 2006
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A print offshoot is launching soon, and photographer Clayton James Cubitt was tapped to shoot a different kind of ink job for the magazine's premiere issue.
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Southern Rock should clearly be an offshoot from the Blues, not from Psychadelic Rock.
IsThatLegal? 2003
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