outgrowth

American  

[out-grohth] / ˈaʊtˌgroʊθ /

noun

1. a natural development, product, or result.

   to consider truancy an outgrowth of parental neglect.

2. an additional, supplementary result.

3. a growing out or forth.

4. something that grows out; offshoot; excrescence.

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outgrowth British  

/ ˈaʊtˌɡrəʊθ /

noun

1. a thing growing out of a main body

2. a development, result, or consequence

3. the act of growing out

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Etymology

Origin of outgrowth

First recorded in 1830–40; out- + growth

Example Sentences

Bony Outgrowth in relation to insertion of Brachialis Muscle 90 38.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

Outgrowth in relation to insertion of Brachialis Muscle, following Backward Dislocation of Elbow.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

Outgrowth of a forum devoted to the community and racial crisis, held in New York City in December 1964.

From The Negro in the United States; a selected bibliography. Compiled by Dorothy B. Porter by Porter, Dorothy B.

Conceptual Thought Probably an Outgrowth of Simpler Psychic States.—Is the capacity for such conceptual thought, however, which appears as the final efflorescence of complex neural activity something entirely new?

From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Guyer, Michael F.

Related Words

• by-product
• offshoot