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out⋅growth

  [out-grohth]
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–noun
1. a natural development, product, or result: to consider truancy an outgrowth of parental neglect.
2. an additional, supplementary result.
3. a growing out or forth.
4. something that grows out; offshoot; excrescence.
Origin:
1830–40; out- + growth
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out·growth   (out'grōth')   
n.  
  1. The act or process of growing out.
  2. A product of growing out; a projecting part or offshoot: an outgrowth of new shoots on a branch.
  3. A result or consequence: Inflation is an outgrowth of war.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Outgrowth

Out"growth`\, n. That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Main Entry: out·growth
Pronunciation: 'aut-"grOth
Function: noun
1 : the process of growing out outgrowth of chick heart fibroblasts —Biological Abstracts>
2 : something that grows directly out of something else outgrowth of hair> outgrowth>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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