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a branch of a main stem especially of a plant<trimmed back some of the tree's outgrowths so they wouldn't interfere with power lines>— see offshoot 1
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a condition or occurrence traceable to a cause<a predictable outgrowth of the suburbʼs ever growing population will be the need for more schools>— see effect 1
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something that naturally develops or is developed from something else<an industry that is an outgrowth of the technology first developed for the U.S. space program>— see derivative
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