offshoot
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offshoot (plural offshoots)
- That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.
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- offshoot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- offshoot in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
