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单词 offshoot
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offshootn.

Brit. /ˈɒfʃuːt/, U.S. /ˈɔfˌʃut/, /ˈɑfˌʃut/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: off- prefix, shoot n.1
Etymology: < off- prefix + shoot n.1
1. Something that shoots off or emanates; an emanation. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > of intangible things or particles from an object > that which
streamc1374
expiration1576
project1596
deflux1603
defluxion1603
effluence1603
resultation1603
resultance1611
resultancy1613
effluxion1625
effluency1646
emanation1646
efflux1647
issue1659
emission1664
offshoot1674
elapsea1677
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 28 The body is..reeking out whole steams of little unseen off-shoots.
2.
a. A collateral branch of or descendant from a particular family, race, or people.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > [noun] > collateral descendant
offshoot1710
offset1711
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > stock, race, or family > [noun] > branch > collateral branch
by-channel1628
offshoot1710
offset1711
lateral branch1869
1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 157. ⁋10 [She] finds her self related, by some Off-shoot or other, to almost every great Family in England.
1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. ix. 188 An offshoot of the great house which had already given Dukes to Florence.
1896 F. Brinkley Japanese-Eng. Dict. 1555/1 Although the offshoots from these noble families took various names.., yet these were not, strictly speaking, the family names or uji in the now-accepted sense.
1907 P. R. T. Gurdon Khasis 11 We can..suppose that the Khasis are an offshoot of the Mon people of Further India.
1946 National Geographic Mag. Jan. 53/2 The later Seminole, who were primarily an offshoot of the Creeks and Hitchiti, were also a Muskhogean people.
1956 W. S. Churchill Hist. Eng.-speaking Peoples II. v. v. 182 A hitherto little-noticed Member for Cambridge, Oliver Cromwell, rather rough in his manners, but an offshoot of Thomas Cromwell's line.
1988 N. Lowndes Chekago v. 189 Long ago he had come to hate every sprig and offshoot of Len's appalling family tree.
b. Something which originated or developed from something else.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > that which originates from something else
daughtereOE
outcasting1340
impc1380
childa1398
outgrowing?a1425
proventc1451
provenuec1487
excrescency1545
sprig1575
procedure?1577
proceed1578
derivative1593
offspring1596
superfetation1603
excression1610
shootc1610
excretion1615
slip1627
excrescence1633
derivation1641
derivate1660
offshoot1801
offtracta1806
deduction1835
outgrowth1837
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. vi. 222 Off-shoots from the Saturnalian disfigurement.
1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands ix. 139 A large school in the town, which has offshoots in the surrounding villages.
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 9 The much older settlement of which it may have been an offshoot.
1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 318/1 Nor is it possible to regard the..Fulah, and many other Soudanese tongues as fragments or offshoots of Bantu.
1948 K. Davis Human Society xx. 576 Chiropractic and naturopathy, offshoots of osteopathy.
1968 R. Gittings John Keats (1971) I. v. 111 These sonnets..were, however, only offshoots of a long personal poem.
2002 Independent 21 June i. 5/4 His Luton-based budget airline, which has spawned offshoots involving car rentals and online shopping.
3.
a. A side shoot or branch springing from the trunk or other part of a plant; a lateral shoot.
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the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [noun] > sucker or side-shoot
scourgea1382
by-sprouting1562
sucker1577
lateral1578
offset1642
spiney1649
side shoot1658
appendix1664
by-shoot1669
water sprout1688
turion1725
tiller1733
surculus1775
suckler1796
suckling1798
offshoot1814
stool1818
base shoot1835
side-tiller1903
toe1952
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > offshoot
scionc1384
explantation?a1425
sprig1575
offset1642
ramification1755
off-branch1793
offshoot1814
1814 J. Murray in S. Smiles Publisher & his Friends (1891) I. xi. 254 Stunted offshoots of felled trees.
1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. 23 The rosette-like off-shoots of House-leeks.
1929 J. E. Weaver & F. E. Clements Plant Ecol. vi. 113 Dormancy is not confined to seeds, however, but is also characteristic of many offshoots such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, etc.
1991 J. Phillips You'll never eat Lunch in this Town Again (1992) 390 The cactus grows some offshoots.
2000 Z. Sardar Consumption Kuala Lumpur 126 Papaya..grows rapidly and spawns offshoots readily in any garden.
b. A lateral branch projecting from the main part of a material thing, as a nerve trunk, road, mountain, etc.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > divergence > [noun] > ramification > a branching part
sprig1634
offshoot1851
offset1853
outbranching1855
offsetting1857
1851 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. (ed. 2) 230 The vesicular matter of the retina is an offshoot (so to speak) from that of the optic ganglion.
1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District (1879) 242 Lonscale Fell is the most eastern offshoot of Skiddaw.
1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill vi. 193 Adam bore to the left, along a tramroad up an offshoot of the gill.
1999 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 11 Jan. 10 A lush, shaded walkway..along an offshoot of the San Antonio River.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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