offshoot

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “offshoot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology

From off- +‎ shoot.

Noun

offshoot (plural offshoots)

1. That which shoots off or separates from a main stem or branch of a plant.

   the offshoots of a tree

2. That which develops from something else.

   an offshoot of a criminal organization

Synonyms

• spin-off/spinoff

Translations

that which shoots off from a main stem

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分枝 (zh) (fēnzhī)

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• Finnish: sivuverso
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

that which develops from something else

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分支 (zh) (fēnzhī), 衍生物 (zh) (yǎnshēngwù), 支流 (zh) (zhīliú), 旁系 (zh) (pángxì)

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• Finnish: rönsy (fi), haara (fi)

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• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} فَصِيلَة (ar) f (faṣīla)
• Czech: ^{(please verify)} odnož f
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} uitloper (nl) m
• French: ^{(please verify)} dérivé (fr) m
• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} განშტოება (ganšṭoeba), ^{(please verify)} განტოტება (ganṭoṭeba), ^{(please verify)} ამონაყარი (amonaq̇ari), ^{(please verify)} ყლორტი (q̇lorṭi), ^{(please verify)} რქა (rka), ^{(please verify)} ლერწი (lerc̣i), ^{(please verify)} ტოტი (ṭoṭi), ^{(please verify)} შტო (šṭo)
• German: ^{(please verify)} Ableger (de) m
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} discendente (it), ^{(please verify)} sfilato (it), ^{(please verify)} separato (it), ^{(please verify)} derivato (it)
• Maori: ^{(please verify)} rerenga
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ^{(please verify)} utløper m

• Occitan: ^{(please verify)} ramificacion f, ^{(please verify)} gaisson m, ^{(please verify)} rebrot m
• Portuguese: ^{(please verify)} desvio (pt) m, ^{(please verify)} ramificação (pt) m
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} ramură (ro) f
• Russian: ^{(please verify)} ответвле́ние (ru) n (otvetvlénije), ^{(please verify)} отво́док (ru) m (otvódok)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} rama (es) f, ^{(please verify)} ramal m, ^{(please verify)} ramificación f; ^{(please verify)} derivado (es) m
• Tok Pisin: ^{(please verify)} han (tpi)
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} відгалуження n (vidhalužennja), ^{(please verify)} бічний паросток m (bičnyj parostok) (of a plant)

Further reading

• “offshoot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “offshoot”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• shoot off