outgrowth
Americannoun
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a natural development, product, or result.
to consider truancy an outgrowth of parental neglect.
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an additional, supplementary result.
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a growing out or forth.
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something that grows out; offshoot; excrescence.
noun
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a thing growing out of a main body
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a development, result, or consequence
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the act of growing out
Etymology
Origin of outgrowth
Example Sentences
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His blunder is captured in the false proposition that birthright citizenship “crossed the Atlantic with the colonists—and was adopted with little fanfare after the Revolution” as an outgrowth of the common law of England.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
The injured tissue produced substantial neurite outgrowth, meaning the long extensions that allow neurons to communicate began growing again.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2026
“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 ● Nov. 24, 2025
They also clarify the damage wrought by our collective amnesia and our refusal to learn from history – an outgrowth of our propensity to view our place in history from an exceptionalist perspective.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2025
This complaint was an outgrowth of the lab’s chronic shortcoming: the lack of time for basic scientific experimentation.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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