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offshoot
[ awf-shoot, of- ]
noun
- a branch or lateral shoot from a main stem, as of a plant.
- anything conceived of as springing or proceeding from a main stock:
an offshoot of a discussion.
- a branch, descendant, or scion of a specific population or family.
offshoot
/ 藞蓲蹿藢蕛耻藧迟 /
noun
- a shoot or branch growing from the main stem of a plant
- something that develops or derives from a principal source or origin
Example Sentences
And even as factories closed, L.A. was able to take advantage of another offshoot of globalization.
It plays a starring role in b茅arnaise sauce, one of the many offshoots of the long-cherished mother sauces in French cuisine.
Most of those killed in the recent attacks, which occurred over a period of days earlier this month, were Alawites - an offshoot of Shia Islam, and Assad's minority sect.
Frankly, it was just a new undertaking in my life 鈥 the music is an offshoot of that.
Syria's north-west Mediterranean coast is the heartland of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam to which many of the former Assad regime's political and military elite belonged.
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