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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope