offshoot

/ˈɔf.ʃuːt/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.98 in modern English

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noun

"the offshoots of a tree"
"an offshoot of a criminal organization"
"The reason is that the Berks & Hants Railway Company, under the powers of which the line was built, also included the Reading-Basingstoke section. The company was an offshoot of the G.W.R., which absorbed it before any section was opened."

Etymology tree English off- Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwdeti? Proto-Germanic *skuttōnąbf.? Proto-Germanic *skeutaną Proto-West Germanic *skeutan Old English sċēotan Middle English schoten English shoot English offshoot From off- + shoot.

offshoots (plural)

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