| 单词 | offshoot |
| 释义 | offshoot (once / 4960 pages) n On a plant, an offshoot is a sprout or shoot that branches off. From this botanical meaning, offshoot has come to describe anything that starts or grows from something else. You can start a whole new plant with a houseplant's offshoot, by putting it in water and waiting for it to grow roots. Another kind of offshoot is a local branch of a library, an offshoot of the central location, or an offshoot of a popular TV show, also called a "spin-off." Interestingly, the earliest definition of offshoot, in the seventeenth century, referred to family trees. It wasn't until 1814 that offshoot was used for actual plants. WORD FAMILYoffshoot: offshoots USAGE EXAMPLESMr. Assad and the core of his regime hail from the minority Alawite community, a distant offshoot of Shiite Islam. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) The cafe/bar is an offshoot of El Rey on the Lower East Side. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) My Kushner discoveries were an offshoot of my research for a chapter on Harvard donors. Salon(Dec 20, 2016) n a natural consequence of development Syn|Hyper branch, offset, outgrowth consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon |
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