Definition of outgrowth
1 : a process or product of growing out an outgrowth of hair
2 : consequence, by-product crime is often an outgrowth of poverty
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Examples of outgrowth in a Sentence
trimmed back some of the tree's outgrowths so they wouldn't interfere with the power lines
a predictable outgrowth of the suburb's ever growing population will be the need for more schools
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The Princeton show is the outgrowth of a larger surveillance exhibition that Levin curated at the ZKM, the German new media arts center.
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First Known Use of outgrowth
1837
OUTGROWTH Defined for English Language Learners
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: something that develops or results from something else
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: something that grows out of something else
OUTGROWTH Defined for Kids
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: something that grows out of or develops from something else
Medical Dictionary
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1: the process of growing out in vitro, dopamine modifies axonal and dendritic outgrowth—Linda C. Mayes
2: something that grows directly out of something else an outgrowth of hair a bony outgrowth
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