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outgrowth
[ out-grohth ]
noun
- a natural development, product, or result:
to consider truancy an outgrowth of parental neglect.
- an additional, supplementary result.
- a growing out or forth.
- something that grows out; offshoot; excrescence.
outgrowth
/ ˈaʊtˌɡrəʊθ /
noun
- a thing growing out of a main body
- a development, result, or consequence
- the act of growing out
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Word History and Origins
Origin of outgrowth1
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Example Sentences
The collaboration between two large companies is the logical outgrowth of a few big trends.
Culture is an organic outgrowth of an organization's history, it's people, its successes and failures.
But this is an inversion of Zionism, not its natural outgrowth.
Much like I wonder how one becomes a beach-volleyball official from Egypt—an economic outgrowth of the Arab Spring I suppose.
But anarchism is a logical outgrowth of the anti-intellectual side of collectivism.
Occasionally an ear-like outgrowth appears on the neck, indicative of the attempt of a second slit to develop into an ear.
The art of any people is an outgrowth and efflorescence of an internal living principle: and as is the tree so is its fruit.
The art of sculpture was an essential outgrowth of the Greek spirit, and perfectly suited the requirements of Greek thought.
Colorado was the outgrowth of the great financial crisis of 1857.
Luther's devil is the outgrowth of humanity in long-clothes.
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