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

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

Squibb’s homespun realism isn’t a party trick but an outgrowth of an acting training that keeps her alert to the physical and emotional world of her character.

From Los Angeles Times

“The road being built in this corrupt, cruel way was a natural outgrowth of everything set up in the first movie. We’re telling the audience right away, ‘We explore heavy themes in our story.’”

From Los Angeles Times

These buyouts are absurd, an outgrowth of a crazed marketplace and undeniably screwy optics at a state university.

From The Wall Street Journal

Trade barriers to Chinese goods are rising, and its own economy is menaced by deflation, the outgrowth of its rampant production.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• by-product
• offshoot