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offshoot

[ awf-shoot, of- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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

/ ˈɒfˌʃuːt /

First recorded in 1665–75; off + shoot ¹

Target was established in 1962 by the Dayton brothers as a discount offshoot of their eponymous Twin Cities department store.

Well, because in a rare move, the film is being released this week by Codeblack Entertainment, a small offshoot of Lionsgate.

Hamas is an offshoot of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, now anathema to Cairo's military regime.

On the Syrian battlefield, the lines between the Brotherhood and Jabhat al-Nusra, an offshoot of al Qaeda, often are blurred.

Hamas arose as an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and the connection between the two groups are strong.

The Disciples are just as evidently an offshoot from the Baptists, as children are an offshoot from the parental stock.

Behind this, hiding itself as it were and almost invisible, nestled a smaller excrescence or offshoot.

The Amorites would appear to have been an eastern offshoot of the same race.

The Hittites of Hebron, however, may really have been an offshoot of the Hittite nations of the north.

Probably the buffalo had never before seen this offshoot of civilization, for he was much alarmed.

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