different between offshoot vs excrescence
offshoot
English
Etymology
From off- +? shoot.
Noun
offshoot (plural offshoots)
- That which shoots off or separates from a main stem or branch of a plant.
- the offshoots of a tree
- That which develops from something else.
- an offshoot of a criminal organization
Synonyms
- spin-off/spinoff
Translations
Further reading
- offshoot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- offshoot in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- shoot off
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excrescence
English
Etymology
From Middle English, early 15th century, in sense “(action of) growing out (of something else)”. Borrowed from Latin excrescentia (“abnormal growths”), from excrescentem, from excr?scere, from ex- (“out”) (English ex-) + cr?scere (“to grow”) (English crescent). Sense of “abnormal growth” from 1570s, from earlier excrescency (1540s in this sense).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?sk??s?ns/, /?k?sk??s?ns/
Noun
excrescence (plural excrescences)
- Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part III, XXXIII [Uniform ed., p. 299]:
- Perhaps he meant that towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part III, XXXIII [Uniform ed., p. 299]:
- A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct.
- (phonetics) The epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [?w?rmp?] (adding a [p] between [m] and [?]), or -t (Etymology 2).
- Synonym: vyanjanabhakti
- Antonyms: svarabhakti, anaptyxis
- Hypernym: epenthesis
Hyponyms
- (phonetic): linking consonant
Related terms
- excrescency
- excrescent
Translations
See also
- (phonetic): intervocalic
References
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