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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.

Origin:
1830–40; out- + growth

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outgrowth (ˈaʊtˌɡrəʊθ)

—n
1.	a thing growing out of a main body
2.	a development, result, or consequence
3.	the act of growing out

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