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offshoot

n.

offspring, by-product, limb; see branch 1, 2.

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Another word for offshoot

noun

Something resembling or structurally analogous to a tree branch:
arm, branch, fork. See part
Something derived from another:
byproduct, derivation, derivative, descendant, outgrowth, spinoff. See kin
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:
branch, division, subdivision. See part
A young stemlike growth arising from a plant:
bine, runner, shoot, sprig, sprout, tendril. See kin

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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 first offshoot from it was the American Baptist Missionary Union in 1814.
The main branches of the resultant " tree " may be rendered as follows: [[Coraciomorphae Odontolcae..Colymbo-+Pelargoalectoromorphae..Ratitae Morphae Morphae ' 'Neornithes]] The Odontolcae seem to be an early specialized offshoot of the Colymbo-Pelargomorphous brigade, while the Ratitae represent a number of side branches of early Alectoromorphae.
An offshoot of the Khlysti is the more celebrated secret sect of the Skoptsi (skopets, a eunuch), which represents an extreme ascetic reaction from the promiscuous immorality of some (by no means all) of the Khlysti.

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