outgrowth

noun out·growth \ ˈau̇t-ˌgrōth \

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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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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This effort to go after voters and voting rights, claiming that two million of votes were fraudulent, that’s a direct outgrowth of the idea of voting fraud which the Republican Party en masse, which its leadership has embraced.

— megan garber, The Atlantic, "Radio Atlantic: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Yoni Appelbaum on Charlottesville's Aftermath," 18 Aug. 2017
The loyalty and community spirit, Lea said, was an outgrowth of the weeks in which volunteers helped build J.K.'s into a pub.

— libby solomon, Columbia Flier, "This Week in Columbia History: Volunteers built Wilde Lake pub into the 'living room of the community'," 16 Aug. 2017
That was just the inevitable outgrowth of the underlying rivalry, and that rivalry revolved around persuading hundreds of millions of people of the rightness of a particular vision.

— peter savodnik, vanityfair.com, "How Comrade Trump Unleashed a Cold War in America," 9 Aug. 2017
That was just the inevitable outgrowth of the underlying rivalry, and that rivalry revolved around persuading hundreds of millions of people of the rightness of a particular vision.

— peter savodnik, The Hive, "How Comrade Trump Unleashed a Cold War in America," 9 Aug. 2017
The Public Safety Partnership, which Sessions announced in June, was an outgrowth of President Trump's executive order directing a crackdown on violent crime.

— the washington post, NOLA.com, "Jeff Sessions says cities need to crack down on illegal immigration," 4 Aug. 2017
McDougal said this was a natural outgrowth of its telemedicine work.

— william thornton, AL.com, "AlternaVisit's Tom McDougal talks the future of telemedicine," 1 Aug. 2017
And sensory friendly, to me, is an outgrowth of that.

— gary graff, Billboard, "Dan Zanes & Billy Bragg Cover Lead Belly's Iconic 'Rock Island Line': Exclusive Premiere," 21 July 2017
The Qatar crisis is an outgrowth of proxy wars that have consumed the region since the 2011 Arab uprisings.

— marc lynch, Washington Post, "Three big lessons of the Qatar crisis," 14 July 2017

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First Known Use of outgrowth

1837

outgrowth Synonyms

Synonyms

offshoot, shoot, sprout

Antonyms

antecedent, causation, cause, occasion, reason

Related Words

excrescence, growth; bough, branchlet, limb, twig; bud, floret; spray, sprig, spur

Near Antonyms

consideration, determinant, factor; base, basis, foundation, ground, groundwork; impetus, incentive, inspiration, instigation, stimulus; mother, origin, root, source, spring

OUTGROWTH Defined for English Language Learners

outgrowth

noun

Definition of outgrowth for English Language Learners

: something that develops or results from something else
: something that grows out of something else

OUTGROWTH Defined for Kids

outgrowth

noun out·growth \ ˈau̇t-ˌgrōth \

Definition of outgrowth for Students

:something that grows out of or develops from something else

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outgrowth

noun out·growth \ ˈau̇t-ˌgrōth \

medical Definition of outgrowth

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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