Outgrowth
[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.
/ˈaʊtˌɡrəʊθ/
noun
1.
a thing growing out of a main body
2.
a development, result, or consequence
3.
the act of growing out
n.
1837, from out (adv.) + growth. Figurative sense “natural product” is earlier (1828).
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