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offshoot

English

Etymology

From off- +? shoot.

Noun

offshoot (plural offshoots)

  1. That which shoots off or separates from a main stem or branch of a plant.
    the offshoots of a tree
  2. 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)

  1. 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.
  2. A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct.
  3. (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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