Offshoot Synonyms and Antonyms

ôfsho͝ot, ŏf-
Something derived from another
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. byproduct
  2. derivation
  3. derivative
  4. descendant
  5. outgrowth
  6. spinoff
A part of a family, tribe, or other group, or of such a group's language, that is believed to stem from a common ancestor
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. branch
  2. offspring
  3. by-product
  4. division
  5. outgrowth
  6. limb
  7. subdivision
  8. offset
Antonyms:
  1. source
  2. origin
A young stemlike growth arising from a plant
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bine
  2. runner
  3. shoot
  4. sprig
  5. sprout
  6. tendril
Something that branches out or derives its existence or origin from a particular source.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. branch
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. tangential

Words Related to Offshoot

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. part
  2. kin
  3. off-shoot

Offshoot Sentence Examples

  • The two appendixes attached to the upper lobe or lobus pyramidalis, and known in modern nomenclature as processus pyramidalis and processus papillaris, were described respectively as the "finger" of the liver and as the "offshoot."

  • The first offshoot from it was the American Baptist Missionary Union in 1814.

  • The Anoplura may probably be regarded as a degraded offshoot of the Hemiptera.

  • The Odonata are in many imaginal and larval characters highly specialized; yet they probably arose with the Ephemeroptera as a divergent offshoot of the same primitive isopteroid stock which developed more directly into the living Isoptera, Plecoptera, Dermaptera and Orthoptera.

  • Under the southern slope of Parnassus were situated the two small plains of Crisa and Anticyra, separated by Mt Cirphis, an offshoot from the main range.

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