Usually means: Branch derived from main source.
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  1. offshoot: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. offshoot: Merriam-Webster
  3. offshoot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. offshoot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. offshoot: Collins English Dictionary
  6. offshoot: Vocabulary.com
  7. Offshoot, offshoot: Wordnik
  8. offshoot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. offshoot: Wiktionary
  10. offshoot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. offshoot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. offshoot: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Offshoot, offshoot: Dictionary.com
  14. offshoot (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. offshoot: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Offshoot (plant): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Offshoot: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. offshoot: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. offshoot: Rhymezone
  20. offshoot: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. offshoot: FreeDictionary.org
  22. offshoot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. offshoot: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. offshoot: Legal dictionary
  2. offshoot: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. offshoot: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (offshoot)

▸ noun:  Something which shoots off or separates from a main stem or branch of a plant.
▸ noun:  Something which develops from something else.

Similar:
branch, outgrowth, offset, outbranch, subbranch, embranchment, substem, angle-shoot, sprout, branchling, more...

Opposite:
main branch, parent, source, origin

Phrases:
punk rock offshoot, reggae offshoot, jazz offshoot, religious offshoot, punk offshoot, more...

Adjectives:
direct, earliest, important, natural, small, mere, recent, interesting, last, specialized, latest

Colors:
    olive,     sage,     fern,     mint,     jade, more...


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Similar:
branch, outgrowth, offset, outbranch, subbranch, embranchment, substem, angle-shoot, sprout, branchling, more...

Opposite:
main branch, parent, source, origin

Phrases:
punk rock offshoot, reggae offshoot, jazz offshoot, religious offshoot, punk offshoot, dynastic offshoot, tree offshoot, offshoot of a larger work, certain offshoot, more...

Adjectives:
direct, earliest, important, natural, small, mere, recent, interesting, last, specialized, latest

Colors:
    olive,     sage,     fern,     mint,     jade, more...



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