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Webster 1913 Edition

Offshoot

Off′shootˊ

,

Noun.

[

Off

+

shoot

.]

That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.;

as, the

offshoots

of a tree

.

Definition 2024

offshoot

offshoot

English

Noun

offshoot ‎(plural offshoots)

That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.
the offshoots of a tree

Synonyms

spin-off/spinoff

Translations

that which shoots off from a main stem

Dutch: uitloper (nl) m
Finnish: sivuverso
French: dérivé (fr) m
German: Ableger (de) m
Italian: derivato (it)
Maori: rerenga
Portuguese: desvio (pt) m, ramificação (pt) m

Romanian: ramură (ro) f
Russian: ответвле́ние (ru) n ‎(otvetvlénije), отво́док (ru) m ‎(otvódok)
Spanish: rama (es) f, ramal m, ramificación f; derivado (es) m
Tok Pisin: han (tpi)
Ukrainian: відгалуження n ‎(vidhalužennja), бічний паросток m ‎(bičnyj parostok) (of a plant)

External links

offshoot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
offshoot in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

shoot off