1Something that grows out of something else.

1. 1.1mass noun The process of growing out.
   with further outgrowth the radius and ulna develop

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   • The smaller, more distal foramen formed through a similar course of differential outgrowth and fusion.
   • In 1879, Uskoff noted that isolated white blood cells displayed greater outgrowth of processes during microscopic examination with red light compared with violet-blue light.
   • The phenotypic analysis of fru mutant embryos along with fru's temporal and spatial expression pattern suggests that the fru gene functions during axonal outgrowth.
   • The balayage technique provides ultimate control over color application and allows for less outgrowth and more contrast in the hair.
   • Angiogenesis, a process by which new blood vessels sprout from existing one, is a prerequisite for outgrowth and metastasis of tumour.
2. 1.2 A natural development or result of something.
   the book is an imaginative outgrowth of practical criticism

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   • The emergence of free agent workers can be seen as a natural outgrowth of changing concepts about careers and career development.
   • A sixth test result - loop length approximation - is a natural outgrowth of the previous five tests.
   • I documented an outgrowth of the mentality thus displayed earlier.
   • ‘Rather than adhering to a set form and a limited range of gestures, as in ballet, the dancer creates form as an outgrowth of his or her own communicative impulses,’ the dance school says.
   • ‘It's an outgrowth of the idea that somehow it's exciting to be on camera, that our lives become interesting and more real when they're on camera,’ she said.
   • My interest is an outgrowth of over twenty years of research on expansion of the Earth.
   • It was founded in London in the 1860s as an outgrowth of Methodism, a sort of militant form of Methodism which had a strong sense of social justice.
   • It is an outgrowth of modern problem solving: a system for living.
   • Then there was the equally intriguing suggestion that what happened was simply a grotesque outgrowth of things which happen all the time in some small businesses.
   • First of all, the discovery that germs cause infection was an outgrowth of Pasteur's studies demonstrating that germs cause putrefaction of animal and vegetable material outside the body.
   • The characters are very personal, sort of outgrowths of my own experiences, and obviously based on people I've come into contact with, one way or another.
   • The study of normative political thought and the history of political thought is not an outgrowth of the same social-scientific turn as the other sub-disciplines in the field.
   • Although maybe this is simply an outgrowth of the semi-obsessive logorrhea of writers, where they feel they know their work best and can't help but respond.
   • It's due to a gap in leadership and talent at many agencies, perhaps an outgrowth of a brain drain caused by the last recession.
   • There is not much of a case for this, except that basketball is played indoors on a manmade surface and is of its own invention rather than an outgrowth of another sport.
   • When you were younger, did you have any ambitions to appear in movies, or did that just happen as an outgrowth of your comedy dream?
   • This, her fourth volume of poetry, has been described as ‘organic outgrowths of a life encompassing both Ireland and Australia.’
   • The new county leadership expresses a vision for economic development that sees job creation as the natural outgrowth of business development.
   • This latest work appears to be an outgrowth of her previous collaboration with researchers to use a gel as a scaffolding for the growth of cartilage.
   • This problem becomes magnified when you consider the rate at which these ad-hoc data sources are appearing, an outgrowth of the data explosion.