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Another word for offshoot

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Noun

  1. Something resembling or structurally analogous to a tree branch

    See also:

    part

  2. Something derived from another

    See also:

    kin

  3. 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

    See also:

    part

  4. A young stemlike growth arising from a plant

    See also:

    kin

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Another word for offshoot

Noun
  1. See also:

    branch

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Sentence Examples

  • 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 eastern system springs from the Tauric offshoot (Kurd Dagh, &c.), which shuts off the Commagenian basins, and as the triple chain of J.

  • 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 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.

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