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单词 offshoot
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Definition of offshoot in English:

offshoot

noun ˈɒfʃuːt
  • 1A side shoot or branch on a plant.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Not a few of the townsfolk, or their ancestors, more likely, have gone so far as to plant offshoots of the fruit-bearing specimens in their own gardens.
    • The flowers are probably wind-pollinated, and the plants can reproduce vegetatively by lateral offshoots, and by rhizomes.
    • Also inside the aloe vera plant had grown 3 offshoots which were getting to be a couple of inches high - time to repot them on their own.
    • Pistia stratiotes L. is a free-floating aquatic angiosperm that can reproduce rapidly by vegetative offshoots from stolons.
    • After a female offshoot is planted it will be five years before there is a commercial crop of 30-40 pounds of dates.
    Synonyms
    side shoot, shoot, sucker, tendril, runner, scion, slip, offset, sprout, sprig, stem, twig, branch, bough, limb, spur
    technical stolon
    1. 1.1 A thing that develops from something else.
      commercial offshoots of universities
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The company was an umbrella organisation for a string of offshoots providing doctors and other specialists to any hospital needing to cover staffing gaps.
      • Connect was set up as an offshoot of Edinburgh University five years ago.
      • The experience gained there obviously didn't go astray as she now has a thriving business, which developed as an offshoot to the Country Markets.
      • I accept this penchant may have developed as an offshoot from my dislike of thongs, but it's grown up big and strong into a whole new preference in itself.
      • The luminous mould has been developed by researchers at the commercial offshoot of the school of biological sciences at Edinburgh University.
      • The product was developed as an offshoot of the biological warfare programme.
      • Certainly there was no shopping centre along with the myriad offshoot of shops that development has spawned.
      • It will create jobs, attract a pool of educated researches, and have economic offshoots, like the commercialisation of biotechnology discovered at the institute.
      • The encouragement of smuggling was also an offshoot of this co-operation.
      • With fifteen volumes to its name, it hinted that, at the very least, it wasn't the small offshoot of Disco that many have believed before.
      • Reading skills in the age of deconstruction and its many theoretical offshoots have apparently followed required Shakespeare courses into oblivion.
      • This organization was founded in 1983 as an offshoot from Wageningen Agricultural University.
      • He's been brought in to produce the latest Star Wars offshoot - Star Wars: Clone Wars.
      • That is often a criticism of the way administrative law developed in England and the way its offshoots have developed.
      • Zen practice developed in India as an offshoot of Buddhism.
      • An offshoot of the actor's production company, the website serves a variety of functions.
      • Tonight, you can check out yet another product of the creative collaborations and musical offshoots of these two bands.
      • Stuedemann and his colleagues developed the urine test as an offshoot of their vaccine work.
      • It is an offshoot of an effective Meningitis Hib vaccine introduced in Finland which effectively solved one of the major hurdles - providing long term effectiveness.
      • Is this an HDTV offshoot or something proprietary that Moviebeam developed in-house?
      Synonyms
      subsidiary, branch, derivative, adjunct, appendage
      outcome, result, effect, consequence, upshot, product, by-product, spin-off, ramification, development, outgrowth
 
 

Definition of offshoot in US English:

offshoot

noun
  • 1A side shoot or branch on a plant.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • After a female offshoot is planted it will be five years before there is a commercial crop of 30-40 pounds of dates.
    • Also inside the aloe vera plant had grown 3 offshoots which were getting to be a couple of inches high - time to repot them on their own.
    • Pistia stratiotes L. is a free-floating aquatic angiosperm that can reproduce rapidly by vegetative offshoots from stolons.
    • The flowers are probably wind-pollinated, and the plants can reproduce vegetatively by lateral offshoots, and by rhizomes.
    • Not a few of the townsfolk, or their ancestors, more likely, have gone so far as to plant offshoots of the fruit-bearing specimens in their own gardens.
    Synonyms
    side shoot, shoot, sucker, tendril, runner, scion, slip, offset, sprout, sprig, stem, twig, branch, bough, limb, spur
    1. 1.1 A thing that originated or developed from something else.
      commercial offshoots of universities
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The experience gained there obviously didn't go astray as she now has a thriving business, which developed as an offshoot to the Country Markets.
      • Reading skills in the age of deconstruction and its many theoretical offshoots have apparently followed required Shakespeare courses into oblivion.
      • Stuedemann and his colleagues developed the urine test as an offshoot of their vaccine work.
      • He's been brought in to produce the latest Star Wars offshoot - Star Wars: Clone Wars.
      • The luminous mould has been developed by researchers at the commercial offshoot of the school of biological sciences at Edinburgh University.
      • Tonight, you can check out yet another product of the creative collaborations and musical offshoots of these two bands.
      • Zen practice developed in India as an offshoot of Buddhism.
      • Is this an HDTV offshoot or something proprietary that Moviebeam developed in-house?
      • The product was developed as an offshoot of the biological warfare programme.
      • Certainly there was no shopping centre along with the myriad offshoot of shops that development has spawned.
      • I accept this penchant may have developed as an offshoot from my dislike of thongs, but it's grown up big and strong into a whole new preference in itself.
      • The encouragement of smuggling was also an offshoot of this co-operation.
      • It is an offshoot of an effective Meningitis Hib vaccine introduced in Finland which effectively solved one of the major hurdles - providing long term effectiveness.
      • That is often a criticism of the way administrative law developed in England and the way its offshoots have developed.
      • With fifteen volumes to its name, it hinted that, at the very least, it wasn't the small offshoot of Disco that many have believed before.
      • The company was an umbrella organisation for a string of offshoots providing doctors and other specialists to any hospital needing to cover staffing gaps.
      • It will create jobs, attract a pool of educated researches, and have economic offshoots, like the commercialisation of biotechnology discovered at the institute.
      • An offshoot of the actor's production company, the website serves a variety of functions.
      • This organization was founded in 1983 as an offshoot from Wageningen Agricultural University.
      • Connect was set up as an offshoot of Edinburgh University five years ago.
      Synonyms
      subsidiary, branch, derivative, adjunct, appendage
      outcome, result, effect, consequence, upshot, product, by-product, spin-off, ramification, development, outgrowth
 
 
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