outgrowth
Americannoun
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a natural development, product, or result.
to consider truancy an outgrowth of parental neglect.
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an additional, supplementary result.
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a growing out or forth.
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something that grows out; offshoot; excrescence.
noun
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a thing growing out of a main body
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a development, result, or consequence
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the act of growing out
Etymology
Origin of outgrowth
Example Sentences
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The injured tissue produced substantial neurite outgrowth, meaning the long extensions that allow neurons to communicate began growing again.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2026
Reiner resigned in 2006 as chairman of California’s First 5 commission, an outgrowth of Proposition 10, after Times reporting raised questions about the use of tax dollars to promote Proposition 82.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
These buyouts are absurd, an outgrowth of a crazed marketplace and undeniably screwy optics at a state university.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
Basically, the idea was to explore how LAB could be used to colonize a food environment in order to prevent the outgrowth of spoilage or pathogenic bacteria.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2025
Equally important, Woods says, the mound city was in large part an outgrowth of the community's previous adoption of maize.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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