Associations to the word «Offshoot»

Wiktionary

OFFSHOOT, noun. That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.

Dictionary definition

OFFSHOOT, noun. A natural consequence of development.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky