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offshoot

noun
/ˈɔf.ʃuːt/US/ˈɒf.ʃuːt/UK

Etymology

From off- + shoot.

  1. inherited from *skeutaną✻
  2. inherited from *skeutan✻
  3. inherited from scēotan
  4. inherited from scheten
  5. prefixed as offshoot — “off + shoot”

Definitions

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

    • the offshoots of a tree

  2. Something which develops from something else.

    • an offshoot of a criminal organization
    • The reason is that the Berks & Hants Railway Company, under the powers of which the line was built, also included the Reading-Basingstoke section. The company was an offshoot of the G.W.R., which absorbed it before any section was opened.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at offshoot. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at offshoot. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at offshoot

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA