outgrowthn.
/ˈaʊtɡrəʊθ/, U.S. /ˈaʊtˌɡroʊθ/ 1. The action or process of growing out or developing.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun]
waxingc1055
increasingc1340
increasec1374
echinga1382
creasing1398
augmentinga1400
alarginga1425
moringa1425
augmentc1425
incrementc1425
creasec1440
increasement1509
enlarginga1513
enlargement1564
amplification1569
accession1570
usury1576
enhancement1577
growth1587
creasement1592
accrease1598
crescence1602
improvement1607
excrement1608
majoration1626
heightening1629
auction1692
turgescence1806
outgrowth1837
steepening1868
prolating1919
upgrading1920
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
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 52 Those who dislike the mere mention of the outgrowth of individual property.
1853 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 143 45 When this outgrowth takes place before the anus, I propose to call it an abdomen.
1902 Trans. Linn. Soc. Oct. 304 The appearance of a new mesenterial pair is followed very closely by the outgrowth of a tentacle from its entocœle.
1989 BioFactors 2 72/1 Nerve growth factor has a bewildering variety of effects on its target cells. These range from..changes in neurotransmitter-synthesizing enzymes..to the outgrowth of stable cell processes.
2. A product, outcome, or offshoot of something.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production > product > natural product or products
naturals1586
product1600
outgrowth1846
1846 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Dec. 446/2 An outgrowth of the highest thought and affection, combined into organic harmonies.
1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) i. 2 Only the outgrowth of our own perverted life.
1888 S. Moore tr. K. Marx & F. Engels Manifesto Communist Party ii. 19 Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of the conditions of your bourgeois production.
a1944 H. D. Coll. Poems (1983) 330 The Greek Drama, the outgrowth of the worship of Dionysius, is a means of approach to Athene.
1969 D. Widgery in A. Cockburn & R. Blackburn Student Power 120 The NUS was formed in 1922 as an outgrowth of various inter-university organizations.
1989 Forbes 20 Mar. 150/2 The new first-class service..is the outgrowth of two years of exhaustive research into the desires, needs and requirements of upscale travelers.
3. A normal or abnormal structure which grows out of or from something.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > projection or protuberance > [noun]
boss1386
process1565
pitch1566
promontorium1791
promontory1793
papula1795
papule1821
outgrowth1855
upgrowth1870
1855 L. Holden Human Osteol. 57 At the lower part of the squamous portion there is an outgrowth of bone, termed the ‘zygoma’.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 540 When outgrowths occur on the seed, either along the raphe..or as a cushion covering the micropyle..they are variously called Crest, Strophiole, or Caruncle.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 403/1 Through the agency of micro-organisms dwelling in nodular outgrowths on the roots of..leguminous plants, the latter are enabled to assimilate the free nitrogen of the air.
1940 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 67 12 In Rhizophlyctis, for example, the sporangium is reported to have grown directly from the zoospore occasionally, and in R. Liguicola (Lindau) Minden it may form as an outgrowth of the zoospore.
1994 W. Maples & M. Browning Dead Men do tell Tales x. 142 Age may occasionally still be seen by arthritic lipping or outgrowths along a fragment of a joint.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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